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    "id": 901674,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "So, it is important that we design a better way of executing this process. In fact, you will find that in certain hostile areas or polling stations, you could dutifully and lawfully recruit agents and send them to the polling stations but your opponents chase them away and they are excluded from the polling station completely. They could also encounter immense hostility that they feel that their lives are in danger or get compromised by being given little money and they walk away and disappear. So, as a candidate, you cannot be penalised because of the wrongdoing of your agent although in law, sometimes, the acts of the agent can bind the principal but not in terms of criminality. So, I would like us to look at this very carefully. For example, if you have 800 polling stations in your county, like I suspect Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri has, how can you be held responsible for the absence of a signature from one polling station? In fact, in comparable jurisdictions, elections are held flawlessly and candidates are not even obligated to have agents. That is the situation we are looking for. The criminal responsibility must be assigned to the presiding officers and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) should bear the greatest responsibility in mismanagement of elections. In fact, they should not just be fined but some of them should go to jail if they bungle elections."
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