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    "id": 762621,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/762621/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Member for Uasin Gishu County",
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    "content": "I wish to draw the attention of both the minority and majority decisions of the Supreme Court, 2017. It recommended that there have to be changes to our electoral decisions and therefore, it is my hope that this House will approach this debate in a sober and bipartisan manner. Hon. Speaker, I wish to bring to the House’s attention the amendments that are before us. The first amendment is in relation to the position of the Chair of the IEBC because nature abhors a vacuum. It is therefore, in order to make amendments to ensure that that vacuum does not exist. More recently, if you can all recall, when the Chief Justice, Dr. Mutunga retired, the Vice-Chair of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was able to perform the duties of the Chair to ensure there was no vacuum. It is, therefore, in order to have similar legislation in relation to IEBC. The same goes to the powers given to the Commissioners that would be acting as Chairs at that time. The amendment to Clause 5 proposes to delete Section 29 of the Elections Act. This amendments are also pursuant to a court decision; Gichira versus the IEBC case. Therefore, it is in order and should get all our support. Amendment to Clause 6 seeks to amend Section 39 of the Elections Act, which provides for electronic transmission and physical delivery of the results to ensure that at any stage, any discrepancies detected are capable of being checked against the source of the documents which is the polling station and the final result. The proposed amendments are not in any way meant to water down the constitutional principles of holding free, fair and transparent elections; rather they are to anchor these principles in practice via statute. Legislative amendments to laws following a court decision are not unique to Kenya"
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