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    "id": 719064,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719064/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1356,
        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
        "slug": "wesley-kipchumba-korir"
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    "content": "Wa kwanza anatoka kwako. I also support the idea that we need one ID. When you look at what is going on right now with the biometric voter registration, they need your fingerprints and ID and you get a card. Why can they not integrate the acquisition of national ID with the IEBC? It is the same thing. If you have a system that already has my fingerprints, why do you need my fingerprints again? Why can the IEBC and the National Registration Bureau not integrate their systems so that people’s fingerprints taken for ID issuance can also be used during voting? If you can do that, it makes things easy and cheaper. You can force somebody to take a voters card but you cannot force them to vote. Instead, the Government spends so much money in giving people IDs and voters cards. That is double the amount that can be used at the same time with the same thing and use it well. I think what we need as a House is not a Motion. We need to bring a Bill to amend the Elections Act and make sure that the system we have for IDs is also used for voting. That will make things very easy. That system should also be used for issuance of driving licence. There is no need to have all these documents. If you have gone to a driving school, you will just be given a certificate of driving school. Instead of having a very big driving licence, use your ID as a driving licence. If we can integrate all these---"
}