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    "id": 928041,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928041/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13169,
        "legal_name": "Jeniffer Shamala",
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    "content": "sent to the President and eventually to this House. They have forgotten a constituency called persons with disability; the 6.5 million of them. In 2017, only 1.5 million registered as voters against the potential 2.6 million because of lack of accessibility to the IEBC offices and voting centres. So, most of them did not register. Some of them are visually impaired and others are deaf. We do not have sign language interpreters in polling or registration stations. We do not have information in braille for the visually impaired. That is why instead of registering the 2.6 million potential voters with disability, we ended up registering 1.5 million only. Only 800,000 of them voted in the last elections. This is probably because of lack of accessibility to polling stations. This Bill does not mention anything about them. It mentions about the EACC, who I do not know what they will be doing at the selection panel and the National Gender and Equality Commission. I join Hon. Junet in saying that we should do more consultation."
}