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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "offence. This is because it opens the country to serious procurement problems that if not addressed, compromises elections. I will be pushing some serious amendments on procurement processes. Last issue that I want to talk about today because of pressure of time is on audit of elections. It is very critical that we look at the active element of offences during the time that election is being carried out. The Election Offences Act of 2016, that we are trying to amend, has seriously negated holding the Commission to account on the basis of auditing an election. At what point should that election be audited? Offences should be put on every single audit trail so that you can show the country what the elections audit should look like at the time of the election, just before results are given out without proper audit, after the results have been announced for all candidates at the local and national level and more importantly, after the gazettement of those results. If the audit query is not examined as an offence, then it becomes very difficult to hold individuals who are running our electoral processes to account. This is a good Bill. It is a good start that will help us look at unreasonable delays in elections, alteration of results, and unregulated polling stations as means of fraud. However, there are larger questions in our electoral processes. As I support this Bill, I will be pushing forward for the amendment of this proposal to see whether we can make sure that our elections have proper measure of integrity through such kind of pieces of legislation. Therefore, I support and will do so further with amendments. I thank you."
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