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there so they sent me to another line, I went there they said my head
was not there. They had one copy book and they were calling people
to go and vote, so they sent me to room 7, I went there they said my
head was not there, so I came back to room #1, then I asked Mammie
Doyen Moore, the ES, I told her during the voter registration time you
people were the one that registered me and they are telling me my
head is not here and I really want to vote, she said Yah wait, later she
said before you can vote you need to give me small thing, either you
buy me soft drink, she said give me 150, I give her the 150 dollars,
after I gave her the 150 she told the boy to put my name in the black
copy book and they put my name in the copy book , then they called
me, Yah Golden come and to vote, when I went to vote they gave me
the ballot paper they did not stamp it, so I told them to stamp the
ballot paper, they said no I said you will stamp this ballot paper, we
started arguing, then he later stamped the ballot paper then I voted,
even my daughter, she paid money to vote. That was I saw during the
Election Day.
All of these testimonies of 1st appellants’ witnesses regarding allegations of
gross irregularities in violation of the Constitution and Elections Law during the
October 10, 2017 elections were similarly buttressed by witnesses of the 2nd
appellants. Primary amongst them were 1) Atty. Jerold Cole Bangalu who testified
that the Final Registration Roll was marred with massive irregularities and fraud; that
the provisional registration roll was never published to magisterial areas as required
by the elections law and NEC regulations; that there was huge discrepancies
between the provisional roll and final roll; that although the exhibition period for the
provisional roll should have been for a week to allow voters make corrections to the
roll but was unusually cut off due to many outcries from the public as to the
discrepancies on the provisional roll; and that
instead of
addressing those
discrepancies the NEC chairman announced that all those with valid voters
registration card would be allowed to vote. Some of the discrepancies pointed out
by the witnesses were: a) names of voters did not match with the photos, b) males
were taken for females, c) duplication of names, amongst others. The witness also
stated that the FRR was never published as required by law and that it was only after
thorough engagement with the NEC that seven political parties were given the FRR
on a pen drive.
According to the witness, the FRR given them was dissimilar to that which was
posted on the NEC’s website indicating that the NEC operated two separate and
distinct FRR; that the SMS system of verification of names on the FRR constituted an