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    "id": 901686,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "My understating of this Bill is that, at least, at the polling station level, we should append our signatures all through the delegated agents at that level. That is the kind of amendment that we will need to do so that whoever is your designated agent should be able to sign that form at that level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am persuaded by the argument by Sen. Wetangula that, indeed, in some polling stations they may be extremely--- Every one of us knows that there are areas that are completely hostile, and you are at the mercy of the goons in that polling station. They would decide to do anything to those results. I have vivid experiences in some of the polling stations. There is one polling station that I walked into and witnessed the voting pattern. My agent called me and sent an SMS saying: ―Congratulations, Senator. You have 400 votes in this polling station and your second opponent has 75 votes.‖ However, when they arrived at the tallying centre, I was the one with the 75 votes and my opponent had 400 votes. Unfortunately, in between, some of the agents get bought out. Therefore, you have a total switch-over of the results which do not make any meaning or an expression of what people expect in their voting when they came to the voting station. We need to tighten this area. How do we reduce hooliganism? Sen. Wetangula will remember that the whole business of sitting in Serena Hotel was about electoral malpractices."
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