Polling day that their stations were non-existent is proved. The Court is satisfied from their evidence that they were denied the opportunity to vote for their candidate namely the Petitioner as a result of the removal of the two Polling stations by the 2nd Respondent”. The above assessment by the learned trial judge, according to counsel for the appellants, is erroneous. First of all, appellants’ counsel pointed out that it is inconceivable to believe that all persons alleged to vote at the said polling stations were only and only the petitioner’s supporters. In their view, if the above allegations were to be taken to be true, even the 2nd appellant’s supporters too were denied the same opportunity to vote. Secondly, it is their contention that the mere being in possession of voters’ cards that, had been issued in the previous voter’s Registration process was not enough to prove that the said polling stations had been removed on the polling day. Counsel contended further that the said deponents did not show that during the display exercise they went to cross check their names and to verify where they were supposed to cast their votes from. In paragraphs 4-7 of the affidavit of Badru Kiggundu, Chairman Electoral Commission and was alluded to by the trial judge in her judgment, the 2nd respondent/1st appellant had carried out an update of the Voters Register between 29th September 2005 and October 30th 2005. According to counsel, the same exercise was repeated between 22nd December 2005 to 17th January 2006 for purposes of giving all eligible persons the opportunity to cross check the particulars of their voter information in preparation for the election. Anomalies found would be corrected and missing persons were included in the Register. In their view, this evidence is credible and was not challenged at all. Appellant’s counsel submitted further that the respondent’s evidence relied upon by the trial judge on pages 9-10 of her judgment was lacking in material particular to justify the finding of disenfranchisement of voters. In their view, most of these

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