6 the NEC, in announcing the results of the elections, made the specific notation that out of the two million one hundred thousand plus registered voters, a total of one million seven hundred thousand or 74.5 percent (74.5%) of the total number of registered voters had actually voted in the elections and, further, that a total of eighty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-four (88,574) votes were declared as invalid votes. Simultaneously with the announcement of the Final Results of the elections, and because none of the presidential candidates had attained an absolute majority of the valid votes cast, the NEC announced, through its Chairman, Cllr. Jerome Korkoya, that a run-off election would be held on November 7, 2017 for the presidential and vice presidential race and would involve the candidates of the two political parties (the Coalition for Democratic Change and the Unity Party) that had the highest votes in the October 10, 2017 elections. Presidential candidate Charles Walker Brumskine and vice presidential candidate Harrison S. Karnwea of the Liberty Party, and all Liberty Party candidates for the House of Representatives, as well as the Liberty Party itself, not being satisfied with the Final Results announced by the NEC, and believing that the manner in which the elections were conducted was in violation of the Constitution and Elections Law, as well as the Rules and Regulations of the NEC, including the deprivation of the rights of voters, and that the process was tainted with gross irregularities and fraud, challenged the results announced by the NEC, sought the cancellation by the NEC of the elections and prayed the NEC conduct a rerun of the elections. In their thirty-eight (38) count complaint, filed with the NEC on October 23, 2017, the complainants outlined what they said were specific incidents which supported their claims of the constitutional violations, irregularities and fraud of the election. In order that there is a full appreciation of the claims and contentions of the complainants, an assessment of the magnitude of the claims in relation to the prayer made, and for the benefit of the analysis which we shall make later in this Opinion, we quote verbatim the said complaint as follows, to wit: “THE COMPLAINT Complainants file this complaint under the authority of Article 83(c) of the Liberian Constitution which states: "...Any party or candidate who complains