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    "id": 901692,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "done away with. This is because our elections are very emotional and violent. As much as we do not want to validate or encourage hooliganism during elections, we have to consider that it is a process. It will take time before we reach where South Africa and Ghana have reached. At that time of emotions, the candidate may not be in a position to sign that declaration form. Therefore, that should not be used to deny them justice. I would also like to indicate that having candidates sign the declaration form in itself does not make the election credible; it requires that the IEBC ensures that we have a credible election. This is so because even if, as a candidate, I signed that form but the process all the way from the time the election started was not properly done, it is null and void. We should encourage the IEBC to ensure that we have a process from the time the election start all the way to the end, so that people can believe in it. We also have agents and as the law is now, it is the agents of the candidates who sign the declaration form. As it is now, there are some agents who also either abandon the polling station when they see that their candidate is losing; and that has never stopped candidates from going to court, even when agents do not sign those forms. It does not also stop the declaration of results. Therefore, I would like to encourage the Senator to look at these amendments further, and as practitioners in the election cycle, we will be willing to sit with him and look through it. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Bill with the amendments as mentioned."
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