Eng. James Rege

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Mbadi will second the Motion. However, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that the election management process in Kenya, especially the tallying and transmission of presidential votes in 2007 general elections was marred by allegations of rigging and fraud leading to disputed results that precipitated Kenya’s most serious political crisis to date; aware that the report of the Independent Review Commission (the Kriegler Commission) on the general elections held in Kenya in 2007 as adopted by Parliament recommended among other things, “review of the Electoral Commission’s administrative procedures with a view ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir--- view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, all Kenyans are now used to electronic transactions everywhere, including fund transfers which are done globally, including in Kenya. For example, we have Pesa Pap and M-Pesa. All Kenyans are now in love with electronic transactions. We can go further to accept that, to date, we can do electronic voter registration using biometric electronic systems. They use face recognition and fingerprints. That does not even require writing. In other words, if a voter cannot write, face recognition and thumb printing can be easily used. Moreover, to date in Kenya, in Parliament, for example, the parliamentary ... view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, electronic voter registration has been practiced here before. During the Referendum, the system was used in over 18 constituencies and it was a big success. Even at this time, we used the system to conduct voter registration in Ikolomani and Kamukunji. When we use electronic voter registration, tallying of votes is a lot faster than the manual procedure. Therefore, nobody can question anything about using the electronic system. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not something that really needs to be debated upon. That is because we are all aware of what is happening. Therefore, I wish to move that we legally adopt electronic voter registration. Thank you. I wish to ask hon. Imanyara to second the Motion. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I would like to thank all my colleagues in the House for supporting this very wanting Motion. E- “anything” is in and we can see that in our mobile phones. Today, almost everybody has a mobile phone. Those who can have the smart phones can even have Global Positioning System (GPS). They can trace where their farms and houses are. They can draw a map of their own anywhere in the world. That is what we call an electronic system. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in 2002, I was appointed by the Rt. hon. Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, to monitor vote counting at County Hall. I was with Mr. Eddy Njoroge. We were monitoring votes as they were coming in from all parts of the country. Across the hall was ECK, where Mr. Kivuitu was. We made sure that all the votes that were coming in electronically were counted by ECK. When we saw certain bad movements, we actually walked straight to them and told them: “No, this is the data.” It went well and there was no problem. view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: In 2007, the voting was convoluted and nothing went right. That prompted me to come up with this Motion. We have to legalize and legislate that electronic voting system be adopted in this country. I know of someone who has been in Parliament for ten years and has never won any election. Once that is done, that person will never see Parliament again because he does not have the means. Even in the future, we are going to--- view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that person comes from southern--- view
• 25 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that person comes from Kenya. I know his name, but I do not want to mention it. Therefore, I will withdraw the statement. view