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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we want to make sure that the regulations that we are going to publish for this election are so tight; that they are so consultative in nature that we have the views of all political parties so that whatever we fall back on if an electronic system fails does not bring back the dead to live. We do not want to hear of any dead people voting and we also do not want to have live people who are going to be killed by a system that we have not addressed ourselves to. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, seek from my friends across the Floor understanding and being honest with ourselves and the people who sent us to this House. Let us look at it and say just in the spirit that we had in the Committee, we listed to people out there, we told them that we have heard them and not everybody’s view was going to be accepted and not everybody’s view in this House is going to be accepted. There is a way forward in this matter. We can agree in the regulations. Ghana which is given as a perfect example of how people voted has got a system. There is a trigger mechanism that says; in the event that it has to go to a manual system, this must happen. We must have observers there, a person must be put aside, scrutinized by all parties concerned and all parties must agree that this person is a legitimate individual and allowed to vote by all parties and not just some guy standing somewhere in a polling station calling himself a returning officer. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, all is not lost. This law should pass as it is. We should go back, look at the regulations seriously and agree on regulations that ensure free and fair elections. I beg to support."
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