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    "content": "Before I forget, I want to thank those who sat in this Committee, especially the leadership of Sen. James Orengo, the Senator for Siaya County; Sen. Kiraitu Murungi, Senator for Meru County and all the other colleagues who sat in this Committee, including Sen. Muthama and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., for a job well done. This Bill consolidates the election related offences. The Committee found that election laws are scattered all over in various pieces of legislation. Therefore, there was need to put all the laws related to elections in one statute. Secondly, those offences needed to be updated to remove some of the antiquated offences that have existed in our statute books for a long time and do not have a lot of meaning in present day terminology and electoral processes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are a number of clusters of election related offences. In Clause 3, we have offences relating to the register of voters. These offences include printing, processing or otherwise making a document purporting to be a register. In other words, the making of illegal and unlawful registers is an offence. Aiding and abetting someone to make such illegal registers is also an offence and so is giving false statement that finds its way into the election register when somebody is applying to be registered as a voter. Clause 4 is on multiple registrations. It prohibits registration of one person more than once. The same clause has provisions relating to members of the IEBC; the Commission and its staff. Any commissioner or staff member of IEBC who aids, supports or helps a person to achieve multiple registration commits an offence and so is a candidate of any political party of any elective seat who aids a person to register more than once."
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