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    "id": 330588,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I want the Minister to look at Regulation 84(1)(b). This is now at the tallying centre. By saying that we shall examine the ballot paper marked “rejection objected to and disputed” and confirm or vary the decision of the presiding officers with regard to the validity of such ballot papers--- This means that at the tallying centre, ballot boxes which will have been sealed at the polling stations, will be re-opened, unless we are imagining a situation where the rejected ballot papers will be a bundle that has been set aside. As an experienced politician, the Minister knows that at the end of voting, after the tallying has been done and the presiding officer is satisfied at the polling station and the agents of all the political parties have agreed, they append their signatures on the result slip and then the ballot boxes are sealed, only to be re-opened in the event of an election petition. So, are you saying, in part (b) of the amendment, that the ballot papers with questionable marks on them will be put somewhere aside or are you saying that the ballot boxes will be re-opened at the tallying centre – something which was cured by an Inter- Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) initiative."
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