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    "id": 731465,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
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    "content": "been deemed criminals who are not supposed to participate in any electoral process in this country. These regulations are going to provide clear-cut systems for inspection and verification of registers to avoid disenfranchisement of voters during the current voting system However, I have a problem with the current voter inspection exercise. The company that was assigned duties lacks experience on how to carry out voter inspection. So, we have to be careful in future to avoid such mistakes because this will be the basis of argument that an election has been rigged. The regulations also provide a framework for verification of biometric data because we have synchronised the whole IEBC exercise to a technology-based process. This will help us have credible elections and results. The regulation also looks into the removal of names from the register. The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has always complained. These days it is called National Super Alliance (NASA) and I am happy to be part of it through Amani National Congress (ANC). They have always complained that dead people are going to participate in the voter registration exercise. However, with biometrics in place we will eliminate all the dead voters from the register. The regulations, for the first time, talk about party primaries and lists of names. We know today is the deadline for submission of party nomination lists for those who are going to participate in the nomination exercise. For a credible election to be held we need to have a credible nomination process. The regulations here talk about the nomination process. However, going forward, we will seek funding for all political parties to ensure that they have enough money to carry out credible nominations. That way, we are assured of a credible general election process. Parties such as ANC have no political funding. We only have the ODM, The National Alliance (TNA) and the Jubilee Party receiving money from the National Treasury. Other small parties did not meet the requirement. We need a regulation where all political parties will be funded for their primaries to ensure that we avoid a repeat of chaos. Lastly, the IEBC has done zero on voter education. If you move to the villages, you will find ladies who have never gone to school and are aged between 50 and 60 years still own the outdated voters card. If you ask them if they participated in the last election, they will tell you, “ Nilienda kwa laini na nikafukuzwa, ilhali nilikuwa na kadi ya kura”. They do not realise that the cards they have were used in 2007 and are not admissible in the coming general election. So, we need thorough voter education prior to the general election. With those many remarks I beg to support the approval of the Elections-related Regulations."
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