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elections in doubt and deprived it of legitimacy, requiring a re-run; and the
Complainants so pray.
2. An NEC Presiding Officer, Josephus Cooper, of Electoral District #3, Nimba
County, was arrested with pre-marked ballots in his possession, some of which
he had already deposited in the ballot box. Complainants attached hereto a
photograph of the Presiding Officer, when he was arrested, marked as
complainants' Exhibit "E."
3. In Zota, Polling Place #3, Precinct Code #06102, Shankpallai Town, District
#4, Bong County, following the close of the polls and counting of ballots, on
Wednesday morning, October 11, 2017, it was noticed that the NEC Presiding
Officer, Joseph Karlon, was carrying a presidential ballot box on a bike. When
confronted and interviewed, the Presiding Officer stated that the ballot box
was left behind and that he had gone alone, unaccompanied by a Police
Officer, to pick it up on a bike; use of an NEC vehicle was evidently avoided. A
transcript of a voice recording of the Presiding Officer's interview with a local
journalist is hereto attached as complainants Exhibit "F." If need be, the
recording will be played during the hearing, and the local journalist will be
subpoenaed as a witness.
4. At voting Precinct #30121, Polling Place #3, Paynesville Community School,
Montserrado County, the Presiding Officer, Moses Cooper, forwarded report
to the Collation Center at SKD Stadium that the Liberty Party Representative
Candidate, Kwisi Johnson, received no vote. When questioned at Collation
Center, he stated that the Record of Count from the Polling Place was missing.
When the ballots were recounted, the LP candidate in fact had 28 votes, and
not zero, as reported by the Presiding Officer. How many of such fraud was
committed around the country will never be known under the circumstances.
What is important is that it shows a consistent pattern on the part of presiding
officers at committing fraud in the elections, which could not have been done
alone but with the connivance of elections officials. Copies of the self-made
record of count of the Presiding Officer, LP's Complaint, and the Record of
Count of October 17, 2017, from the Collation Center are hereto attached in
bulk, as complainant's Exhibit "G".
5. At the Collation Center, at SKD Stadium, it was also observed that in
Precinct #30171, Polling Place 3, District 12, Montserrado County, Liberty
Party, Charles W. Brumskine obtained 205 votes. Regrettably, the Presiding
Officer elected to cancel same and allotted 26 votes. Attached is a copy of the
Presidential Records of Count from District #12, as the Complainants' Exhibit
"H."
6. In Margibi County, Dwazon, District #1, Voting Precinct #24105, Polling
Place #4, the Presidential Record of the Count shows that there were 2550, as
"Total of unused, spoiled and discarded ballot papers," although there should
not have been more than 550 ballots at any Polling Place. Copy of the Record
of Count is hereto attached, as Complainants' Exhibit "I."
7. In Bong County, Tokpaipolu Public School, District #6, Voting Precinct
#06113, Polling Place #1, the Presidential Record of the Count shows that
there were 1,109 ballots cast in favour of George Weah, Presidential
Candidate of the CDC, although there should not have been more than 550
ballots at any Polling Place. Copy of the Record of Count is hereto attached, as
complainants' Exhibit "J." Complainants challenge the NEC to produce all of
the remaining (unused or otherwise) ballots to determine precisely the total