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    "content": "Regarding Clause 40, I do not know what informed my learned Senior to frame it this way. This is because when you give a latitude and say that the Commission shall determine, declare and publish the results of an election within seven days, this is very dangerous. It is extremely dangerous. Elections must be determined and declared as immediately as they finish counting the votes. If we are talking of seven days within which to publish the results in the gazette, is a different matter but declaring the results must be done immediately the count is done and that is what we have been doing. To give a latitude of seven days is to create room for mischief. The fact that we have a new Constitution in this country does not mean we have got rid of mischief makers. They are still there. The fact that we have a new Constitution does not mean fraudsters are not in this country. They are still there. There are people who can easily manipulate these figures within seven days and cause even more trouble in this country than we have had before. So, I urge my learned Senior to re-phrase Clause 40 and give a window of seven days for gazettement but announcement must be immediately after the count of the vote."
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