112 Q. Mr. Witness, let go back to Grand Gedeh County, the paper that you brought to this Investigation you claim to be know your candidate documents tell us when did you get those documents from Grand Gedeh? A: can't give you the exist date but that something I can provide, they were on board on UNMIL Flight so I can provide that for you. Q: Mr. Witness, I suggest to you that the Chairman of NEC, Cllr. Jerome Korkoya had a press conference on Novemb er 1, at that time that he mentioned political parties attempting to spoil the great name of this Commission. Is that correct? A: Yes, we had a press conference. Q: The political party including the LP had first come into knowledge of the existence of those ballots from the social media. It was from the social media report that political parties made statement to which the Chairman reacted. Are you aware of that? A: What am aware is the Commission did not react to those allegations until we had physical evidence. Yes there were report prior to our press conference but in the absent of physical evidence the Commission waited until we received the evidence before we proceeded with the press conference. Q: By the permission of this Hearing I will like to show you photograph of the ballots that were found in Grand Gedeh County and ask you were these were the same documents that you brought here today? The Hearing Officer sustained an objection to this question on grounds of what he termed as “document not pleaded.” We wonder which document the Hearing Officer was referring to that had not been pleaded; the witness having testified that the ballots found were the ‘know your candidate ballot’, having shown the features of the know you candidate ballot, it was important for the investigation to have allowed him to answer the question to ascertain the veracity of his testimony. How did the hearing officer reach the conclusion that the ballot papers were know your candidate ballots in the face of appellants’ witness B. Saye Bliton’s testimony. We note that witness B. Saye Bliton testified that he discovered ballot papers hidden in Clay Town, Grand Gedeh County; that one Patrick Boar called the NEC office which informed them to contact the police; that when police accompanied them on the scene, they saw representative ballot papers with green marks and presidential ballot papers with red marks; that they took photographs and

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