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Appellants/Intervenor excepted and argued the issue before the NEC
Board.
16. That further to the exception described in Count Fifteen (15)
above, the NEC Board totally ignored the oral testimony, video
recording and 182 ballots presented before the CDHO and the effect
which this evidence had on the fairness, freeness and transparency of
the October 10, 2017 elections, And for this reason, Appellants/
Intervenors except.
17. Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence that contrary to law
Appellee adopted a regulation (Regulations on Polling and Counting of
May 6, 2016, Art. 3.2), which provides that if the name of a person
with a voter registration card could not be found on the FRR where he
appears to vote, the presiding officer shall permit the person to vote
if the person's voter registration card is verified through the SMS
verification system managed by Appellee. In his Final Ruling, the CDHO
did not pass on the effectiveness of this regulation, as it is contrary to
law, and how this SMS verification system impacted the October 10,
2017 elections. And so Appellants excepted and argued the issue
before the NEC Board; but the NEC Board totally ignore this specie for
evidence and the effect it had on the fairness, freeness and
transparency of the October 10, 2017 elections. And so Appellants/
Intervenors except.
18. Appellants adduced evidence that after voter registration, which
covered a period of several months, was completed, pursuant to
Appellee's own Voter Registration Regulations of August 12, 2016,
Arts. 9.1 &9.2, Appellee printed a Provisional Registration Roll (PRR)
separately for each registration center, exhibited it for public
inspection and announced that 1.1 million persons had registered to
vote. However when hundreds of registrants protested on the first day
of the exhibition that their names could not be found on the PRR,
Appellee closed down the exhibition on the second day when the
exhibition should have been for a full week. The next time that
Appellee informed the public about voter registration is a week after
the abrupt closure of the exhibition and this time Appellee announced
that 2.2 million persons had registered to vote. This information being
statistically and practically impossible leads any reasonable person to
the belief that the number of registered voters had been inflated to
allow for fraudulent voting and ballot stuffing. The CDHO did not
comment on this material evidence in his Final Ruling. And so
Appellants/Intervenors except and argued the issue before the NEC
Board; but, like the CDHO, the NEC Board totally ignored this specie of
evidence and the effect it had on the fairness, freeness and
transparency of the October 10, 2011 elections. And so
Appellants/Intervenors except.
19. Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence that after the protests
from hundreds of registrants that their names were not on the PRR,
Appellee's Chairman, issued a Press Statement that anyone with a
voter registration card, whether obtained legally or illegally, would be
allowed to vote. In a Press Statement issued by one of Appellee's