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    "id": 718914,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718914/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njomo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1784,
        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": "The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is targeting to register about 9 million Kenyans in this second phase of mass voter registration. In the first week, the IEBC’s target was to register 1.4 million Kenyans but only managed to register 800, 000. This is a very low figure. So much effort has been put to encourage Kenyans to register; mass media, civic education and preachers are now preaching to their believers to register as voters and exercise their democratic rights but we still have very low turn outs in voter registration. It is important that we come up with mechanisms to encourage our voters to register. We can borrow a leaf from the Oregon State in the USA. In 2015, they passed a law that once you get your driving licence or ID, you are automatically registered as a voter. Other states like California, Vermont, West Virginia, Connecticut and Alaska have now passed the same law. This has made it easy for them to register their voters. The IEBC can borrow a leaf from those successful states. We have had problems with our Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits which do not at times work effectively. They were bought in 2012 and have been in stores without being used. These BVR kits should be domiciled at the Registrar of Persons office in each constituency such that when people get IDs, they can go ahead to register. This will save the IEBC a lot of money because there will be no need for civic education."
}