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number of ballots issued by the NEC on Elections Day, how many were
released to each voting center, how many were actually used, and how many
were returned by each voting center.
8. In Cinta Township, Margibi County, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and
10:00 p.m., it was observed that an NEC pick-up was parked on the side of the
road, and the occupants thereof had opened a ballot box, and when an alarm
was raised by a resident of the Township, the vehicle with the occupants fled
the scene, inadvertently dropping the top/cover of the ballot box. The top has
a single seal thereon, number Pre-043875. A photo of the top of the ballot box
is hereto attached as complainants' Exhibit "K." Notice is given that during the
hearing, the top of the ballot box will be displayed, if necessary, and an
affidavit of the individual who witnessed the fraud may also be produced.
Again, this shows a consistent pattern rather than just an isolated incident,
and point to a conspiracy by the NEC or certain officials of the NEC to rig the
elections.
9. In Bong County, Electoral District #4, Shankpalli 1, Voting Precinct #06102,
Polling Place #1, the number of the ballot papers taken from the ballot box
was 177, but candidate Robert Womba got 246. Copy of the Record of Count
is hereto attached, as complainants' Exhibit "L."
10. The Voter Registration Card system employs a nine-digit numbering
system beginning with the number seven (7) and ending with the number
seven (7), creating the possibility of printing 10,000,000 ballots for a country
with a total population of about 4.5 million and a "voter registration list" of
only 2,100,000. What was the intended use of the capacity to print about
7,000,000 more voter registration cards? Complainants say the capacity to
produce the extra and outrageous quantity of voter registration cards could
only have been intended to provide room for fraud, and which actually
allowed fraud in the electoral process. A case in point is the fraud perpetrated
by a staff of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Amos Siebo, who was arrested as
part of an illegal voter registration ring at his private home in Johnsonville,
outside Monrovia. The ring was busted with an assortment of National
Elections Commission voter registration materials, including cameras, blank
voter cards, forms and printers. How a staff of the President's office got
possession of elections materials remains unknown. Mr. Siebo was arrested,
but later released, and has not been prosecuted. This is yet another example
of the fraud that has characterized the entire electoral process. Copy of the
FPA press clipping on the voter registration fraud is hereto attached, as
complainants' Exhibit "M." Was this a part of a larger scheme of fraud—
Presiding Officers breaking seals on ballot boxes after the polls were closed;
removing the ballots that were cast, and replacing them with strange ballots;
ballot boxes being transported by unaccompanied individuals, among others?
11. Gross Irregularities. Gross irregularities were pervasive throughout the
electoral process, which contravenes the constitutional, statutory, and
regulatory requirements of ensuring transparency and fairness in the electoral
process.
1. There was no verification of the number of ballot papers at polling places
prior to the commencement of voting—the starting and ending serial numbers
of ballot papers were never recorded and attested to by party representatives.
As a result, many Records of Count show that ballots at polling places just do
not add up. For instance, the NEC had published that there would not be more