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    "id": 1480913,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "We should make it impossible for IEBC to postpone any election for any reason, unless it is a question of disaster. If it is a disaster, how can a disaster affect only one election out of six? If there is a storm, it should affect all the six. There is also this offence of a presiding officer or an official wilfully rejecting or refusing to count any ballot paper, which they know or have reasonable cause to believe is validly cast or any candidate in accordance with the provisions of such written law. This one is curing something, which actually happens in every election. I know you are going to be a candidate, not under affirmative action, but a straight candidate. You better take this one seriously. The ballot is cast, and so the votes for Sen. Mumma being counted, then the presiding officer refuses to admit that votes are yours. Now, when you are new in the process, and you think you are winning, when they put aside six or ten votes, you do not take it seriously because you are excited. What you do not know is that if this thing is being repeated, like in Kakamega where, I have got 2,000 polling stations, if they knock out ten slowly like that, you are talking about losing 20,000 votes that had been cast in your favour. So, I love this amendment, and I want to congratulate Sen. Cheruiyot, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wa and His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka, because they were the ones who were the co-chairs for the national dialogue that has birthed these amendments. I support. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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