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    "content": "Clause 5 deals with offences relating to voting. These includes:- (1) Forging, counterfeiting and destroying ballot material. (2) Unauthorized supply of ballot paper to any person. (3) Sale or purchase of ballot paper. (4) Unauthorized possession of ballot paper. (5) Putting into the ballot paper any strange material. In other words, putting into the ballot box anything, except the ballot paper that one is entitled or authorized to put after voting. (6) Taking a ballot paper out of polling station without authority. I found this quite intriguing in the sense that it reminded me of the 1988 elections, during those days when Sen. Amos Wako was about to become Attorney-General; he was something else at that time. During that time the returning officer was the District Commissioner (DC). Therefore, people used to vote and after voting, the DC would put all the ballot boxes in a car and transport them a hundred kilometers away to the district headquarters for counting. In the process they would hide some ballot boxes in the bush or forest somewhere in the middle at night. They would be stuffed and loaded onto the Land Rover on the way to the District Commissioner’s official residence. The counting would be done at night. By morning somebody who had won had lost and somebody who had lost had won. I was very careful to say that at that time, Sen. Amos Wako, the Senator for Busia had not become the Attorney General. After he became the Attorney-General, things became better; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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