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    "id": 771623,
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    "content": "I will start that communication again. Hon. Senators, I would like to guide the Senate on the procedure we shall follow in conducting elections of Members of the EALA. The election exercise will be undertaken pursuant to the East African Legislative Assembly Elections (Election of Members of the Assembly) Rules, 2017. The election shall be conducted here in the Senate Chamber, being the place, I have appointed for that purpose in accordance with Rule 17(1). In accordance with Rule 2, the Clerk of the Senate will be the Presiding Officer while the Speaker of the Senate will be the Returning Officer. Hon. Senators, Rule 16(1) requires the Presiding Officer to prepare and, at the time appointed for the election, issue to each Senator (voter) one ballot paper, on which shall be written in alphabetical order, the names of all duly nominated candidates, their gender, age and county, clustered under the heading of the names of the respective parties that nominated them in accordance with Rule 5. I confirm that the ballot papers have been prepared in the manner required. Similar to the manner of carrying out election of the Speaker, Senators will be called to vote according to the Senate list of precedence. So, we shall follow the list of precedence that we normally follow when swearing in Senators at the beginning of the term. Senators who are present and voting will - on signing a list of electors, which is available with the Clerks at the Table - be issued with one ballot paper. Each Senator, on receiving a ballot paper which has been duly stamped, shall proceed to one of the ballot booths and secretly record his/her votes by putting a mark in the space provided on the ballot paper for recording of a vote against the names of their preferred nine candidates as clustered in accordance with the respective proportions of entitlement to each The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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