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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also make my contribution to this very important debate. I want to bring a new perspective and thinking into this debate. The amount of suspicion and emotion that goes into electioneering comes because people do not trust the process. I want to congratulate the Senate Majority Leader and the team behind him for starting the look at the electoral laws at an early stage so that we can develop trust before actual electioneering takes place. I am happy to hear our colleagues from the Opposition side say that they are comfortable because they have been given an opportunity to participate, from the very beginning, in the selection of the commissioners who will manage our elections. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should support this in a bipartisan manner. I pray that the Senate Majority Leader will go back and look at the rest of the electoral laws that we need to look at. Particularly, we can properly fix the question of integrity of the elections as far as computer transmission and the use of electronic system is concerned and perfect it, all these processes will not become an issue. I urge that we should not only do it with the IEBC, but go further to look at our own political parties. We can make systems to be electronic, therefore, removing the human interference bit of it. Our political parties are good. They have proper electronic system to manage their nominations and even a better system at the IEBC, then these processes will not be a matter of concern to all of us. In fact, we can quickly agree on the Selection Panel if we are happy with the integrity of the system that will manage the elections. We can easily agree on who the commissioners are, if the system is devoid of human interference."
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