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    "id": 1406258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. When I stand here, I speak as someone who was part of the initial team – the Interim Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission that changed our electoral management system. I also stand here as someone who is an expert in election operations. Looking at this Bill, I know that many of my colleagues have said that there is a problem with amending the electoral law after every election. There is nothing wrong with doing that at all. The international practice is that after every election, the electoral management body is supposed to undertake a review, re-look at its operations, look at the challenges that were raised in various election petitions, look at what the courts pronounced themselves on, and based on that, they re-look at the law and make sure that it is aligned with those challenges. It also looks at some of the laws that did not make sense and caused challenges during the election management process and then make changes. So, in fact, it is a positive thing. If you look at the history of election management in Kenya, we made the turnaround after the 2007 post-election violence. What happened is that our election system had several challenges. It caused violence after every election. During that time, Kenya had what we call the Kriegler Commission, which went round the country, interviewed people and reviewed the entire register."
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