Re: RUTO`S BELATED REFERENCE TO SUPER MAJORITY IN AUGUST PLEBISCITE IS A PLOY.

Biywo,

You and who else will reject the result!!!! I thought you were sure of winning!

You will be surprised! We are winning with over 70% votes!

With the ways pastors are carrying bombs, watch this space!!

On 7/18/10, Buiywo Siongiki <kubesto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Francis,
> if we do not follow internationaly recognized standards as a measure of
> authenticty, then why are we currently crying foul for Ocampo and the ICC to
> carry the day? that way we mean we dont recognize any internatinla LAW just
> for the sake of ratifying a flawed doc as the PCK. For your info that means
> we are reasoning in a bale dimension and applying double standards.
> we will reject the outcome if it does not garner 65% of the registered vote.
> You and Otieno Sungu can go to court to protest, we dont care!!
>
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:05 PM, otieno sungu <sunoti@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Francis,
>>
>> You have captured it well. Voting is not a compulsory exercise and only
>> the
>> vote of those who are eligible to vote and actually vote counts. Those who
>> abstain or vote in the negative cannot hold the wishes of the majority at
>> ransom.
>>
>> On August 4th, what the majority vote, and the majority here being those
>> eligible to vote and actually go out there to cast their vote will
>> rule.Period.
>>
>> Otieno Sungu
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Francis Tome <tomefrancis@yahoo.com>
>> *To:* mlalahoi@googlegroups.com
>> *Sent:* Sun, July 18, 2010 1:11:19 PM
>> *Subject:* RUTO`S BELATED REFERENCE TO SUPER MAJORITY IN AUGUST PLEBISCITE
>> IS A PLOY.
>>
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>
>> In an interview that was aired by Radio Maisha and published in the Sunday
>> Standard Newspaper of 18th July 2010, honorable William Ruto said that the
>> results of the August plebiscite will raise serious questions if the
>> proponents of the proposed constitution win with a margin of less than 65%
>> of the eligible voters. In other words honorable Ruto is telling all and
>> sundry that he will not hesitate to declare the referendum outcome null
>> and
>> void should it be below the international threshold. In his estimation at
>> least 7 million Kenyans have to vote for the proposed constitution for it
>> to
>> enjoy legitimacy.
>>
>> Interestingly, it is honorable William Ruto and the entire No Brigade that
>> have dissuaded the country from ratifying international laws which in
>> their
>> opinion are dangerous to our democratic well being. Using the same
>> reasoning
>> I dare say that we must not use such an international law to midwife our
>> constitution.
>>
>> Acceding to such whimsical demands is tantamount to entrenching double
>> standards. This is obviously Ruto`s ploy to ensure that the opponents of
>> the
>> proposed constitution defeat the fundamental tenet of democracy which
>> explicitly states that the majority rules. In other words he is
>> desperately
>> attempting to ensure the absolute power of the minority. Such an inimical
>> requirement also means that the minority can be declared the winners for
>> merely abstaining from voting!
>>
>> Subjecting Kenyans to such a requirement would mean that we will end up
>> like the Ontarians who in 2005 held a referendum where 57% of eligible
>> voters voted for change yet, because of a threshold law, the 43% minority
>> ruled the day. To the majority of Ontarians this was indeed a very sad
>> day.
>>
>> The Montenegrins on seeing the fundamental flaws in the international
>> threshold law became wiser. Their law on referendums states that the
>> decision is to be taken by a majority of citizens eligible to vote.
>> However,
>> it does not fix any exact figure. To them, a simple majority is enough to
>> make a referendum decision valid.
>>
>> Back home, when Kenya held a referendum in 2005, there was no reference to
>> the now much hyped international threshold. We generally agreed that the
>> rule of the majority applies. But today, on sensing defeat, the opponents
>> of
>> the proposed constitution find it convenient to flaunt the threshold
>> requirement as if voting is a mandatory exercise!
>>
>> From the foregoing I find the recommendation of a 65% supermajority
>> threshold for the upcoming referendum a blatant disrespect for the very
>> process of constitutionalism that we ourselves have strived to set up for
>> many decades. This requirement contains a virus which is dangerous to the
>> stability of our country when it comes to the implementation of the
>> results.
>>
>>
>> TOME FRANCIS,
>>
>> BUMULA.
>>
>> http://twitter.com/tomefrancis
>>
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