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    "id": 1047907,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1047907/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "looked at the report, you would have seen that there are lots of advancements that have been made which take care of some of these issues. For example, Hon. Ochanda is uncomfortable that there are single constituencies. That also troubled us in the committee that we cannot have single constituencies. In a plain way, it means that you are creating a polling station in the constituency which will only handle a referendum, but which does not ordinarily handle elections. What we have said and we can see it in the joint report, is that the applicable law in the Elections Act will apply in the referendum with necessary modifications. What are those laws? There is a polling station which has been established for purposes of elections. That polling station should be the same that is used in a referendum. We cannot have a constituency and call it a county and expect members to go and vote in one single constituency called a county. It cannot work because there is already a legal precedent borne by"
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