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    "content": "for mobile registration of voters outside the voting area. It is believed that this would be equated to an election offence and it would be equated to transportation of voters. Poling clerks are an important component of an election process and were not included in the Elections Act nor in these regulations. So, the appointment of the same and the scrutiny of the persons who have been appointed by political parties is also something that we have put in the amended regulations. The Committee found that the two regulations regarding registration, namely, relating to the diaspora and to the national registration, covered the same areas. As such, we did not require the two regulations. We, therefore, are proposing the collapsing of the two and setting up a special component to deal with the diaspora voting vis-as-vis the areas that are specific to diaspora registration and not voting. Having collapsed the two, we have also proposed amendments to deal with the appointment of returning officers. The current regulations only cover the appointment of county returning officers and do not talk about the recruitment of constituency returning officers and their deputies. As I mentioned, we are also dealing with issues about polling clerks. I have already included the aspect of polling clerks. There are a lot of registers that are to be produced by the IEBC. They have provided for the publication of the same in the gazette. But in compliance with Article 35 of the Constitution, we will be doing a lot of amendments to allow for publicization of the published list."
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