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    "id": 669980,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "proviso says that a polling station shall not have more than 700 registered voters, unless the Commission determines otherwise. It is not a matter over which we need discretion. We want a process where if you contest for the presidency, it should not take you more than three hours to know the president of this country. The anxiety you build when you are still counting those results at Bomas of Kenya when the results are already known is what engenders the thoughts of what could be cooking in what corner of the country. We are in the digital world. Why do we need more than three hours to have a president declared? The matter of elections is very important. I request Members that as we support this Bill, they should not look at elections in terms of making a winner happy. A good election is one where the loser is happy. The loser can look at the people of Kenya and agree that the elected Member of Parliament for Homa Bay Town Constituency is Hon. Kaluma and the President of the country is so and so. It should not be something that leaves doubts. I pray that as we support this Bill, we should expand the purview of the matters that we are dealing with, and deal with all the other matters we have been thinking about. Good faith should prevail upon this. If it were possible that all these amendments that we believe are necessary for our electoral system to work for all of us could be carried aboard without worrying about which political divide a person hails from, it would be a very good thing. Time has come for us to look at these laws through the whole realm of it. There are only 22.8 million Kenyans with IDs. What of the other Kenyans? Motions have been tabled in this Parliament asking why we cannot devolve the processing of IDs. Even as I support this Bill, I will propose an amendment requiring that the national ID be the only document necessary to register as a voter. People may think it is difficult. It is as simple as requiring a person to indicate the ward he comes from and the polling station he wants to vote from in an ID registration form. It is a feature that is included in the ID documentation. This will help us to bridge the gap of 8 million Kenyans with IDs, but without voting cards in a country where you need 6 million votes to be declared the president. I will propose amendments. I support this Bill. I will save time for my other colleagues to contribute."
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