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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, somebody has to win. Somebody has to lose. Let us use affordable but convenient transparent boxes. Let us use the finger prints to generate ballots so that we do not have a situation where somebody, because he is correct politically, ends up getting a gift of 20,000 or 25,000 votes and you end up having a situation where somebody who won is left there suffering. You know, incidentally, the people who get those free ballots are also associated with the Government in power and thereafter, they try to harass you to your death. If you are lucky to survive, you will be so injured to be competent in any future elections. I want to plead with the Minister and also declare interest that he has represented me ably twice. He knows what I am talking about and the pains that I have gone through during the election petitions--- When you have won in broad daylight and done so with over 4,000 and somebody announces - because he is being directed - that you did not win the elections, we have discussed and he has studied some of those things and seen that happen, including the last general elections. We still do not know how over 25,000 votes were introduced to the box and whoever was favoured by those particular votes would easily tilt the difference. Luckily, John Mututho was voted in with over 41,000 votes and that did not affect much. However, nevertheless, we need to have a system that is fool-proof; a system that is generated by this Bill, so that we do not have so many people having to take that particular decision. Even if the man in charge of the electoral commission is such a holy person that would qualify for the next round of saints, too much power corrupts. He will sit there with his officers. He will issue such instructions that will make this whole thing another battlefield. I want to support this Bill, most of all because I believe the current Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs means well. I want to support this because I know he has been there at the pain of it, defending several petitions. He knows all the mistakes that were made there such that, as of now, we need to have a law that we do not need to have those petitions in courts. We need to have a law that allows only the popular candidates to be elected."
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