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    "id": 760451,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me start by thanking my colleagues for the very valuable contributions they made yesterday in the Second Reading of this Bill and also for supporting the amendments to the Bill. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I said yesterday, as a House, we can now show the country that the amendments proposed to the IEBC Act, Elections Act and Election Offences Act were not meant or passed by this House to benefit Jubilee as a party, but for the good and betterment of our country to realign our laws to comply with the Constitution and to fill the gaps which the Supreme Court raised during the recent judgement. It is now possible to transmit results electronically and through physical delivery of the results from the constituencies and the polling stations to the National Tallying Centre. We have never, as a House, undermined the transmission of results through the electronic system. There has been argument that what we have done is to diminish the transmission of results electronically. What we have done is to provide an additional system that is through the physical delivery. This is good for our country, so that even when there is a problem with the electronic transmission, we have a way of receiving results through physical delivery to the National 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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