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On 13th November 2017, the Intervenor/Complainants had augmented their
list of witnesses to 20 and of the twenty they presented 14 witnesses for
qualification. The Intervenor/ Complainant's second witness was J. Cole
Bangalu who testified to the following; that the provisional roll was not
published; that when the final roll was released there were discrepancies like
individual names not matching pictures; that the Chairman announced that
those holding voter cards will vote even if their names were not found in the
FRR; that the UP raised concern and a Commissioner at the NEC disagreed with
the Chairman statement and the untimely publication of the FRR; that on
September 23, 2017 seven political parties were given the FRR on a flash drive;
that the NEC had a SMS system which the UP believe is an alteration of the
FRR which amounts to fraud; that group of people were disenfranchised of
their right to vote; that voters voted more than once; that the ballots
discovered in Grand Gedeh County were not know your candidate papers.
The Complainant/Intervenors' third witness is Josiah Flomo Joekai, who
informed the Hearing of the following: that occurrences were orchestrated by
the leadership of Chairman Korkoya that led to inefficiency and incapacity at
the Commission; that the Voter Registration process started in a disorderly
manner; that the provisional registration roll was characterized by lots of
omissions; that he was a candidate in the elections but his name was not found
in the provisional voter roll; that Chairman Korkoya told the Liberian Senate
that there were only 13,000 omissions in the provisional registration roll; that
it was anti-democratic for Chairman Korkoya to announce that those with
voter cards will vote even if their particulars were not found in the FRR; that
he indicated that we were not going to have a credible voter roll; that he voted
illegally on elections day because his name was not found in the FRR; that the
SMS system by which his particulars were identified is also an illegal process;
that culprits were apprehended processing illegal voter registration cards; that
people who voted in the FRR identities were being merged with the wrong
people; that separate voter roll was created that subordinated the FRR.
The Intervenor/Complainants' fourth witness was Ottos Saye Bliton from
Grand Gedeh County who testified to the following; that the Town Chief
daughter in Glay Town discovered ballot papers when she went to take bath
in a bambo bathroom; that the ballots were the Presidential ballot papers with
red strips and Representative ballots with green strips; that they were
instructed by an NEC official to take a police officer with them on the scene;
that the police officer took the ballot papers and reported them to the NEC
local office; that he took photos and videos of the ballot papers.
The Intervenor/Complainants fifth witness was Youdy Bella from Grand Gedeh
County, summary of his testimonies is here below; that he saw ballot papers
being rooted from a bathroom in Glay Town; that the ballot papers were
turned over to a police officer called Weah who took the papers to the NEC
Zwedru office; that the ballot papers were received by an NEC officer called
Mr. Donald.
The Intervenor/Complainants sixth witness is a subpoena witness the
Executive Director of the NEC who was called to present and testify to the used
Presidential ballot paper, the used Representative ballot paper and the KnowYour-Candidate poster and the flash drive containing the FRR.
The witness presented the flash drive and confirmed that it is the flash drive
that was distributed to political parties in September 2017. The witness