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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Again, the same principles apply. We are guided by the same sets of law - our Constitution, the relevant Act of Parliament which is the IEBC Act, our Standing Orders and other relevant written laws. I do not want to take Members through the same process again. I just want to briefly say that it is important for Members to understand that Section 109(3) of the Elections Act as amended requires IEBC to come up with regulations to ensure the integrity of the voter register by providing for revision of the voter register through removal of names of persons who do not meet qualifications of being a registered voter so that, if a person registered does not meet the requirements of being a registered voter, then IEBC is supposed to remove those names. It is meant to provide for registration of Kenyan prisoners in Kenya prisons as voters and lay down procedure for the inspection and verification of the register of voters to avoid disenfranchisement. Finally, provide for the availing of the register of voters in polling stations for purposes of verification of biometric data. Having gone through the regulations and having discussed the same with IEBC, we are satisfied as a Committee that these Regulations conform with the Constitution, the IEBC Act, our Standing Orders and other relevant written laws. The Committee, therefore, recommends that the House approves the final draft of the Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017 for publication by the regulation-making authority. Allow me to refer now to the third set of regulations, that is the Draft Elections (Voter Education) Regulations, 2017. The principles are the same. We applied the principles that these The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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