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    "id": 1155513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "(8) The Commission shall announce the final results in the order in which the tallying of the results is completed. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is basically a reformulation of the contents of the Bill in the same way the Committee had provided except for one thing. If Members can look at the amendment proposed by the Committee, it has nine issues. Our point of departure is No.6 on the Committee’s proposal on page 49. The Committee proposed that the Commission shall establish a mechanism for livestreaming of results as announced at a polling station. This was a subject matter of a court ruling and the court ruled that we do not have to provide in law livestreaming of results just for information only because it is not binding to anyone, it declared it unconstitutional. What the Committee tried to do was to reintroduce it. We discussed with the Committee and we were in agreement that the IEBC has no business in regulating what television stations do. It is somebody else to regulate. Once they announce their results and put them in their portal, other broadcasters can use that information without having to be regulated by the IEBC or have the IEBC determining how livestreaming will take place. That is a domain of a totally different regulator. The IEBC does not have its own television station. The Bill had left out the issue of having a portal managed by the IEBC for publishing of polling forms on an online public portal. Since this has been reinstated, then the IEBC will have done their bit by transmitting results and giving the images of the forms of those transmitted results in their public portal. From there, other broadcasters can do their bit without forcing the IEBC to do the same. This was our point of departure. This amendment to Section 39 of the Act is to harmonise the Act with the rulings that were made at different times, the latest being the ruling of the disputed 2017 General Elections. Mostly, they dealt with presidential elections although it also covers what happens at the constituency, polling centre, county and the national tallying centre. So, it is now an inter-formulation which again, we have agreed with the Committee except for that bit and on that one and, for the record, the Vice-Chair might want to put the concurrence on the record that we are happy to leave out IEBC from the live transmission of results. I beg to move."
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