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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "you were there to witness that process. I would like to see a form signed by my agent stating that when they went to the polling station, the ballot box was opened, they witnessed that it was sealed and the voting started correctly at the right time. There is the issue of the mix-up of the ballot papers. How do we handle that situation in a polling station? It is left to the presiding officer or the returning officer. That is where we call upon the integrity of these presiding and returning officers to ensure that those papers are done correctly. Apart from the last element at the county headquarter tallying centre--- Sen. Olekina, you will have to agree to make certain amendments and changes so that we can accommodate the feelings which are beginning to filter through now. One such feeling is that, indeed, we know and it is a matter of fact that people get intimidated. People snatch ballot papers. We must preserve every element of those election papers so that at every given polling station, we know that what has happened is a true reflection of the will of the people. That is why we must safeguard the will of the people, which has been expressed through the ballot. That is our concern. It should be our interest. Any law that we make must reflect that will of the people that has been expressed. We should not have elections being interfered with because of certain people who are good at maneuvering the electoral machines. We have seen many interesting things in the Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) these days. All sorts of peculiar things happen in the servers. We have seen them before and we put blame on anybody at that stage. What has happened has happened. We are living for the future generations and, therefore, what happens today should never happen tomorrow. Therefore, I support this Bill. It is good intentioned, particularly, in Section 39 of the Elections to be amended as already prescribed in (a), (b), (f) and (i), except for the proviso where Sen. Wetangula said that let us not make it as a condition for not going to court. That you cannot use the material because you did not sign for them. That would be a mistake we would be making at this stage. We should leave it open or do some innovations to that Clause of the Bill so that we have something that we can stand for, and which gives free will of the people to be expressed at all times. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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