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    "id": 1494695,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "should have votes counted is the seat of the President. Once it is done, you move to the County Governor, Senator, Member of National Assembly, County Women Representative, and then finish with Member of the County Assembly (MCA), in that order. That is what we are proposing in this Bill. It is all in the spirit of making it transparent, so that we adopt the system that we see in the USA, where at midnight, you will be told Trump or Harris has carried Florida and that becomes the end. Next, you will be told Texas has gone to Candidate X. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, secondly, we need to adopt technology. What makes the results to trickle in as quickly as we saw in the USA is because they are using technology. If you employ technology, you get your results faster. I do not know what the experience of my fellow hon. Senators is, but in my seat, Senator, Nyamira County, I waited for two nights. Since people are doing manual counting, you wait for two nights and if you are not sure about your victory you cannot even break to go and have a meal or bath. However, if we embrace the technology, we can do our tallying much faster and get our results the following day. Why should we vote on a Tuesday and you are being declared on a Thursday? That waiting is too long. So, I hope when we get new commissioners in IEBC, they will bring in technology that brings real change. In Brazil, you conclude elections and in the next three---"
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