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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