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    "id": 330560,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Amina Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move: THAT regulation 73 be amended- (a) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (1) – “(1A) Where the person who applies to be assisted is not accompanied by a person who is qualified to assist him or her, the presiding officer shall assist such voter, in the presence of the agents.” (b) in paragraph (2) by deleting the word “inquiries as the presiding officer may deem necessary” immediately after the word “may make such” and substituting therefor the words “necessary and respectful inquiry” Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this is a very important amendment given the experience we had in the recent by-elections. The regulation provides that every assisted voter should come with their own assistant. It then states the Presiding Officer can assist the person. We are proposing that the Presiding Officer can only assist a person who does not come with somebody to assist them in the presence of agents. We think it is important that although the Constitution requires that every voter should do secret voting, given the experience in Kajiado, we do not wish to leave that to the Presiding Officer. The voter should be allowed to waive that right given that they are the ones who will not have come with an assistant. The second amendment in paragraph 2 is in relation to deleting the inquiries of the presiding officer that he may feel necessary and make them compliant to the Constitution. Those inquiries must be necessary and respectful."
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