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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "should seize this opportunity and bipartisan atmosphere and correct all those loopholes in the electoral laws. There are some other issues to do with elections that are very serious and we have always been doing them in a very haphazard way. The issue of party lists with respect to nominations has to be done in a very transparent way. We should know when to do it and who qualifies. It should not be done on the basis of who knows who. This Committee is all about elections. The issue of party primaries must be streamlined. Look at what has just happened in the United States of America. When the Republicans were doing their nominations, the Democrats were not interfering with it and vice-versa. When we do party nominations in this country, it is a free-for-all exercise. When CORD or Jubilee is doing their nominations in a certain constituency, every person in that constituency will vote. There is no difference between the nominations and the general elections. I think this Committee should come up with suggestions on how to streamline nominations. Finally, because I can see my time is ending, on the issue of transition, I have always held the view that the term of the current IEBC ends in November next year. Elections are in August next year. Suppose there will be a run-off, it will be done in October. Suppose somebody goes to court and the court orders for a repeat of presidential election, it will be repeated in December. There will be no IEBC then. Therefore, we should not have waited for this hue and cry to see far. We should have said: For transitional purposes, let us find a way of ensuring that should there be a run-off or petition to the Supreme Court and the presidential election is repeated, let us prepare and have IEBC in good time."
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