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    "id": 901664,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/901664/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "The words of the Constitution go beyond just rendering a free and fair election. They are also required to ensure that the results of any election are credible, accountable and transparent. Many words are used there requiring compliance. These are provisions which normally should not even find a place in the Constitution. However, because of our experiences with elections, the results at the end of the day must be credible, accurate and transparent. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think one of the reasons my brother, the Senator for Narok, is motivated to bring this law is that, there should be certainty at the end of the elections. In terms of elections, Brazil is one of the most complicated countries one could ever find. The same case applies to Indonesia and the Philippines where religion and ethnicity compound the problem of elections. With the elections that take months in India, it is possible if we have a commission that is prepared to render elections that would bring stability to our country. That cannot only be by legislating, but having men and women of integrity presiding over these elections that would provide integrity. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the areas where it was felt necessary that these elections be reformed was the use of technology, especially in the transmission of results. In the last Presidential elections, one of the most opaque and shadowy areas that arose was in the transmission of results. Although the process was supposed to be technology driven, at the end of the day, there was so much opaqueness. The intention of this Bill requires first of all the defining of declaration which has been a point of controversy. There was an election in Kisii where the question of declaration became a major point of controversy. It was whether it is was when the results were announced or gazetted. This is one of the areas we should look at during the amendments. What is a declaration? Is it a declaration when the results are announced or when they are gazetted in the Kenya Gazette ? You can either determine in that definition, whether the declaration of results is the numbers announced at the time of tallying or what is declared by a publication of notice in the Kenya Gazette . This is an area where you still need some amendments because it has brought controversy in court. I think there was a case involving Hon. Tongi from Nyaribari Chache, Kisii County. It revolved around the issue of declaration of results; whether it was results in the"
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