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    "id": 687084,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "With regard to voter education, it is good that those agencies that were proposed to partner with IEBC to conduct voter education be facilitated. However, there is need to monitor them so that they do not conduct political civic education. There is also the recommendation on party preliminaries. All political parties should hold their nominations on the same day. That will help a lot. I want us to modernise IEBC through this Report so that they can establish real-time systems using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It will be good to produce an impartial, efficient, simple, accurate and verifiable system that will do real time transmission. My only worry is the recommendation that says that they will only do this through ICT. We should not overrule the possibility of having a manual system as a back-up because with time, the electronic system may fail. Although we are looking for high quality standard on ICT, do not rule out the possibility of a manual system as a back-up. It is very important that the Committee has recommended that the maximum number of voters per polling centre should not be more than 500. This should be implemented to the letter. Every polling station in this country should not have more than 500 voters because this will save time and money. It will be good to divide big polling stations into very many streams of a maximum of 500 voters. This voting exercise should be very quick and be completed in time. Finally, I wish that the Committee had proposed a recommendation of someone running for two offices at the same time such as running for President and for Senate or the National Assembly. That should have been something that the Committee should have looked at. Maybe that will come next time when we consider the Bills. I support the Report."
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