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    "id": 731454,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/731454/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "the election laws. All parties have opportunity to use all those windows conferred by the law to verify the process. Otherwise, I am very sure going by the kind of reforms and changes we have pushed to implement within our electoral framework, the country is most probably going to undertake elections very effectively and very efficiently. About the integrated elections management system, we know that time constraint was the main factor that caused the IEBC to cancel that tender, and even prefer going to the same manufacturer who had supplied the biometric computer system in 2013 for very obvious reasons. They spoke about compatibility. What we are going to be supplied with as part of the integrated electoral management system, if it is supplied by a different supplier, you are not assured within the constraints of time whether there will be compatibility, which is what happened in 2013. I support the IEBC in terms of assuring the country that that was the right decision given the circumstances they are in. We hope and trust that this supplier will be able to supply the remaining component to ensure that the country has an integrated electoral management system. This is basically for facilitating transmission, tallying and leading to announcement of final results of the election. If we look back to what the Kriegler Report had said, we will find that one of the problems we had in the electoral system was the manual electoral system, including announcement of results, which of course took a lot of time. This is the case and yet it was a time when the country was undergoing a lot of stress in terms of awaiting the outcome of the election. If we have electronic tallying and transmission system, what will happen is that official announcement, which can be done only by IEBC, will be available, even though provisionally, at the earliest opportunity. This question, therefore, of anybody saying they can have their parallel tallying system needs not even arise. Look at what they do in the US; those media stations always follow the interim tallied results from the US electoral body. We believe if the IEBC will properly implement the integrated management system and if it will have an effective transmission system, clearly there will be no need for anybody to speak about a parallel tallying system. It will, in fact, be overtaken by events in the sense that we believe IEBC will do it in good time, therefore bringing down the tension and getting to see what the outcome of the elections in any particular area is and getting those who are anxious to have the results settle their anxiety. I believe if the IEBC lives to its mark, which I have no doubt it will, Kenya will very soon enter into a phase where by the time we conduct elections, the outcome---"
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