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    "id": 631690,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/631690/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, as the Vice Chairperson comes to answer the questions, I have a follow-up to the issue raised by the distinguished Senator for West Pokot which I would like her to confirm. We better be attentive to this. Section 5(3) of the Elections Act that deals with registration of voters reads as follows:- “Any citizen of Kenya who has attained the age of eighteen years as evidenced by either a national identity card or a Kenyan passport and whose name is not in the register of voters shall be registered as a voter upon application, in the prescribed manner, to the Commission.” The more important one is Section 3(a) which states as follows:- “(3A) Despite subsection (3), a citizen who has attained the age of `18 years and has registered for an identification card and is in possession of an acknowledgement of registration certificate shall, upon application, be registered as a voter using the acknowledgement of registration certificate, but may only vote using an identification card.” Could the Vice Chairperson confirm that the on-going registration of voters can and shall accept citizens holding waiting cards to be registered as voters? The law allows this to be done but we know that people are being turned away because they hold waiting cards."
}