The Council of Governors and the Attorney General have strongly differed on whether IEBC should revert to a manual backup in case the electronic one fails.
Governors, just like other stakeholders who appeared before the special committee on Tuesday, say if there must be back up, it should use satellite.
Attorney general Githu Muigai says a manual back up would need regulations to guide it.
“The failure of the electronic system is almost guaranteed, because that is the nature of the electronics,” he said.
“In order to make this voting exercise successful, we must promulgate the regulations, because that’s where the worry is, to make it absolutely clear, under what circumstances do you resort to the manual system, and that must be very detailed, very clear and widely negotiated,” he added.
However, the council of governors differed with the proposal by the AG, insisting that reverting to a manual system was mischievous.
The governors say the bone of contention is identifying voters as they arrive at polling stations to avoid a scenario where either those dead of absent are counted as voters.
“Every now and then you have voters that don’t exist and need to be expunched from the register of voters, and as far as I know, there is no mechanism to remove a voter from the register,” said Governor Isaac Ruto.
The committee will write a report that is supposed to be tabled before the house on Thursday for debate.