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    "id": 1480898,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1480898/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": "system as the legend has it - for me, it is legend but for people like Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, this is the kind of life that they lived through - that you would go to an election and you know the way they conducted the election at that time. If it was Senator so and so, your agent would hold your picture and people would queue behind. Many times, because the returning officer was the district commissioner, they would declare the result that the powers that be wanted. It did not matter how many people you had on your queue. Many a times, we heard that the short queue was declared to be longer and the longer queue shorter. Madam Temporary Speaker, with the advent of the new Constitution, while we thought we had slain the dragon of electoral malpractices, that ghost has refused to die. It is not unusual after an election, to find an electoral official taking an inordinately long time before making a declaration, despite the fact that all results have come in and all polling stations have been declared. However, for one reason or the other, they are just taking long in making a declaration. In fact, there are many elections - the last one or two elections - where you find that the results were declared days after and there was no justifiable reason the same cannot be done. I look forward to a time where we will be living in a country where elections can be held in the morning, the results are declared in the evening and the following day, people are back to work like nothing happened. There are more mature democracies that have such practices and people believe and trust the electoral systems. Part of achieving that level of belief in our electoral system and conduct, include tightening the noose with provisions such as what is provided in this particular Bill. When an electoral official alters the results for whatever reason, either they have been induced or they do not like the candidate that has won, it must be punishable. The punishment must be punitive, so that the will of the people is always respected. This is to ensure that we do not have people killing each other or feeling like it does not matter how you vote or it is them who count that matter. I do not think that is what Kenyans wanted The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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