108 that the NEC’s workers relied on such statement and allowed persons whose names were not found on the FRR at a particular polling station to vote. Moreover the above testimony of witness Lamin Leigh failed to refute the appellants’ allegation that the NEC discriminated in determining whose name to be placed on the addendum. We are yet to see how this testimony rebutted 1 st appellants’ sixth witness Debora Harris’ testimony, assigned in Grand Bassa County that she was not allowed to vote as her name was not found on the FRR and that she requested a complaint form but the NEC’s staffs at said polling place refused; how it rebutted witness Victoria Koffa who testified that although a gentleman was recording people’s name in a copy book and allowing them to vote she approached him but he refused to allow her to vote and that she stood in the queue up to 8pm but was unable to vote; and how it rebutted witness Yah G olden who alleged that she had to pay L$150 to one Mammie Doyen, an Electoral Supervisor of the NEC before she could vote? It is the law that “when statements or evidence presented in the pleading or by witnesses on the stand, which are damaging to a party and needs to be rebutted, and the party fails to produce rebutting witnesses or other evidence, the evidence presented will be deemed to be true.” Cole v. Cole, Supreme Court Opinion, March Term, 2013. Witness Leigh also confirmed the appellants’ allegations that the ballots papers were without serial number; he stated that the serial numbers were instead placed on the ballot stumps. The witness stated that placing the serial number on the ballot stumps was intended to conceal the identity of the voter. This how he responded to a question on direct examination: Q: One of the allegations is that there are no serial numbers on the presidential and representative ballots. What do you have to say to this? A: The ballots papers before issue to the voters on Elections Day is attached to the ballots stumps that carry a serial number of each ballot paper. When the ballot papers is being issue to a voter to protect the secrecy of the voters choice as stated in our constitution, the detachable part of the ballot is removed from the ballot studs and giving to the voters. In this way there are no way the presiding officers or any staffs can determined what choice was made by the voters.

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