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    "content": "the exercise they are engaging in is very serious for the country and the time limits provided by the Constitution cannot be postponed. Kenyans must remember that we are going back to an election and we are spending billions of money. We are spending over Kshs10 billion to repeat elections that should have been completed on 8th August. But be it as it may, as we obey the decision of the Supreme Court of Kenya, we must provide the requisite infrastructure. How is it possible for our colleagues from the National Super Alliance (NASA) side to say that we cannot change law to make the IEBC succeed, yet we need the money through a Supplementary Budget, which is law, to give the IEBC money to do the elections? It is only Parliament – and we thank God that Parliament is sitting – that can do this. The National Assembly is sitting to pass the Supplementary Bill. Assuming that there was no Parliament and that the National Assembly was not sitting, who would have given money to the IEBC to carry out the elections? We would be having a crisis. So, we should be celebrating the fact we have Parliament in place, it is making laws and it is making decisions that are going to assist this House to move forward. So, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to assure the nation that the law which has been proposed does not, in any way, change even a single procedure of voting in the Republic. It does not change in any way the printing of ballot papers or the procedures. The procedures will remain exactly the same as those used by the IEBC on 8th August. If anything, this Bill is making it clearer and protecting it in law. In fact, one of the celebrated amendments as provided for here is the one in Section 83 of the Act, which makes it clear that when you have an election and when there are procedures which are supposed to be followed in that election, the courts and anybody who is challenging the elections must not look at the form alone; but they must look at the form and substance. This is to ensure that there is a combination of what are the qualitative mechanisms that you are looking at and what is the quantity of the votes that is affected by that qualitative process. Therefore, this is a Bill that just makes it more succinctly clear for the Supreme Court of Kenya to avoid situations where Justice Mwilu read in court that the Chairman of the IEBC wrote a letter and addressed the nation that he was unable to verify the results; or that he was unable to do that."
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