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Proof: State puppet? Registrar of political parties in the spot over contentious registration row

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T03:11:34Z","headline":"State puppet? Registrar of political parties in the spot over contentious registration row","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"standardke","url":"https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/article/2001559470/state-puppet-registrar-of-political-parties-in-the-spot-over-contentious-registration-row","v":1}

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a768cf82340bc15a606ced1476bc3c65b26f1ac18260fed87c047dc9294fa5a0

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970125, mined 2026-10-06 03:39 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 03:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:not-found.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-a768cf82340b.json prints a768cf82340bc15a606ced1476bc3c65b26f1ac18260fed87c047dc9294fa5a0. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-a768cf82340b.json and headline-a768cf82340b.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-a768cf82340b.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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