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    "id": 45119,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/45119/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Personally, I am interested in this Motion because we have tried to improve our electoral system for a long time. In the last election, I was actually very confident that nothing would go wrong because we had tried to improve our electoral system considerably. We had agreed with the defunct ECK that votes would be counted at the polling station. That was one of the previous problems of carrying votes from the polling station to the counting centres. Some boxes would disappear in rivers between the polling station and the counting station. We said to avoid these ballot papers disappearing and some people tampering with them and exchanging boxes between the polling station and the counting station, let us count the votes at the polling station. We said that the presiding officer would then turn himself into a returning officer for the purpose of counting the votes and declaring the results. We thought that we had cured the problem of stealing votes in between those two places. We would chase votes with youth with vehicles. Sometimes, we would be armed with guns and rungus so that nobody would steal the votes. In fact, we would tie the agents to the boxes with ropes just to make sure nobody separates the agent from the"
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