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    "id": 757767,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Chapter 7, Article 86(a) of the Constitution stipulates that whatever voting method used should be transparent and clear to everyone. But when you adopt digital voting, that grandmother or grandfather - the Wanjiku in the village - is not aware of these things you are talking about transmission. So, if results are invalidated because of transmission, I think we are becoming unfair to the common mwananchi . After voting, he or she knows that he dropped his or her paper. By the Leader of the Minority Party saying that going back to manual is taking this country back, it is not in our Constitution. It is something that we designed and we can always change and say: If this digital does not fit us, we can as well go back to manual if that will bring sanity. After all, we have a country which has done that as an example, namely, Germany. We can always refer. If they did it manually and they got the right results and they accepted them. Then we can forget about these transmissions and go manual. For sure, that is what we should think about. We can revise our way of voting. The other thing is the issue of the date of 26thOctober this year. I heard the Rt. Hon. Raila saying that 26th is Uhuru’s birthday. Which day is not a birthday for anyone? Whichever date you pick is a birthday for somebody. For that matter, it demeans to just call a day a birthday for someone then you say you cannot choose that day, unless there is some other reason. And it is clear that our brothers from NASA are using all terminologies and English words to just say that they do not want elections. I think the IEBC is not telling us that such a party should go and vote. It is about an individual casting a vote. So whichever coalition you belong to, it is your choice to go and vote that day or not. The fact remains that on the date of counting of votes, it is percentages that will matter. It is not the parties and coalitions. In 1982 when I was in nursery school, there was a coup. It is high time for Raila Amolo Odinga to retire. It is long overdue for him to be in this thing when he is not making it. So, it is only fair for Kenyans to go by peace, love and unity, the slogan of the party that brought me here, namely, KANU. We shall go back."
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