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    "id": 690451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "passed. After looking at the Bill properly, I am now convinced that it is the best thing to happen for a few reasons. One, for us to grow party democracy, it is important to have party discipline. In some areas like where I come from, if you conduct nominations and party-hopping is still allowed, it is like you will be doing the nominations twice or thrice before the actual election. It is only fair that after nominations, you should be allowed to prepare for the general election and meet other candidates from other parties who may have different ideology and agenda. At that point, it is for people to decide. I do not think it is too much to ask people to make their choices early enough because choices have consequences. If you feel that you are not comfortable in a particular party, now that we have been given early warning in good time, a person can choose which party ticket he or she would like to go into elections on. Having been given that clear understanding, it will be upon all of us to decide early enough if we want to be in CORD, ODM, Jubilee or the other parties. The beauty of it is that nobody is prohibited from moving to a party of his choice. However, after making a choice, you have to stick by it up to the end. I am also happy that the rules that have been put in place and the cleaning-up of the voter register will be a step forward. We are aware that registered voters who are dead and ghost voters have voted in the past. If we have a proper clean-up of the register, there will be no chance whatsoever for dead voters to vote. When we have the electronic voter identification in place, I do not think we will need the blue book, black book or the red book. We only need to ensure that the electronic system of voting and identifying voters works. I am a witness to a situation. We had a by-election in Ngobit Ward, in my constituency. The electronic voter identification was used and at no point did it fail. So, we have evidence that this technology can work if we want them to work. If they work to everybody’s satisfaction, nobody will have any fear that they will be rigged, be it at the presidential, parliamentary or ward level."
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