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    "content": "Therefore, there is no time that a decision will be made by less than four out of the seven commissioners. That was one of the main subjects of misinformation; that we are seeking to lower the quorum threshold. I want Kenyans to know that, that was not so. The decisions of the IEBC will be taken by the majority of the commissioners and such decisions will be lawful. Lastly is on the question of transmission. This was probably the single most contested issue. In the last elections as we know, the Supreme Court nullified the August 8th Presidential election results on the basis of transmission by a hacked system. If I may remind this House, before we went to those elections, this Parliament formed a committee that was popularly known as the Kiraitu-Orengo Committee. It is in the deliberations of that Committee that there was a contestation of what to call the complementary transmission system to the newly introduced electronic one. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the debate then, raged on whether to call it manual because it was considered to be crude and the avenue through which people “steal” elections. It has been explained and it is in the public domain that 70 per cent of our voting system is manual. Yesterday I listened to what a lady colleague in the National Assembly was saying that she walked manually to the voting booth and voted manually. Mr. Speaker, Sir, ---"
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