70 Commissioners, Hon. Jonathan Weedor, Hon. Weedor said that allowing persons with voter registration cards, whose name are not on the FRR to vote, was a recipe for frauds during the October 10, 2017 elections. But the CDHO completely ignored this evidence and did not pass on Appellants' submission that SMS verification system, which was intended to be used to validate persons with voter registration cards, obtained legally or illegally but who were not on the FRR, but which SMS verification system had never been used before by Appellee, undermined the integrity and credibility of the October 10, 2017 elections, constituted a recipe for fraud, and was useless to the majority of the voters who are illiterate, did not have cell phones to be able to use it, and even if some of them had cell phone, did not have telephone connectivity in their areas to us it. The CDHO did not address these material issues in his Final Ruling. And for which, Appellants excepted and argued the issue before the NEC Board; but the NEC Board ignored this specie of evidence and he effect it had on the fairness, freeness and transparency of the October 10, 2017 elections. And so Appellants/Intervenors except 20. Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence before the CDHO that the SMS verification system managed by Appellee constituted the creation of a second FRR, separate and different from the FRR given to the seven (7) political parties in September 2017. This evidence was verified by the fact that a comparison by an expert computer engineer and data management specialist of the FRR given to the seven (7) political parties in September 2017 with the FRR brought to the hearing in November 2017 by Appellee under subpoena showed that that the FRR which Appellee brought to the hearing under subpoena had thousands and thousands more registrants than the FRR given to political parties in September 2017. In his Final Ruling, the CDHO never passed on this material issue. And so Appellants except and argued this issue before the NEC Board. 21. Appellants/Intervenors say that the NEC Board relied on the selfserving, uncorroborated testimony of Appellee's Executive Director that the FRR information on the flash drive given to Appellants/ Intervenors in September 2017 was corrupted and some was lost when Appellants/Intervenors' data management expert and computer engineer downloaded it for comparison with the flash drive that Appellee produced under subpoena in November 2017 at the hearing. Appellants/Intervenors submit that to prove that FRR information on flash drive given by Appellee to Appellants/ Intervenors had been lost or corrupted, Appellee should have had brought to the hearing the same flash drive that was given to one of the other seven (7) political parties and the comparison conducted with what Appellants/Intervenors presented at the hearing in November 2017, not the self-serving testimony of Appellee's Executive Director. And to this, Appellants/Intervenors except. 22. Appellants/Intervenors also adduced evidence before the CDHO, unrebutted and uncontroverted, that the SMS verification system managed by Appellee was flawed and constituted a recipe for frauds.

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