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The electronic system has added no value to our elections, discard it

An IEBC official helps identify a voter on a BVR kit before being allowed to vote. [File, Standard]

Listening to the back and forth in the "talks about talks" currently ongoing between Azimio and Kenya Kwanza as they prepare for bipartisan talks, I have noted the insistence by Azimio that the opening of the servers is an irreducible minimum.

Having been intensely involved in Kenyan elections, I am convinced that save for voter identification, we need to eliminate the electronic portion of our electoral process. Until the 2013 elections, elections were manual in every respect.

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