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which show high votes for Joseph Nyumah Boakai and James Emmanuel
Nuquay, Co-Intervenors, were found buried in Grand Gedeh County and were
never part of the election results which were announced by the NEC.
Intervenors give notice that at the hearing, Intervenors shall present the video
recordings and public radio broadcasts in substantiation of the averments
herein contained.
WHEREFORE and in view of the foregoing, Intervenors pray the NEC as follows:
1. To, in view of the gross frauds and irregularities, annul the results of the
presidential election of October 10, 2017 and order a re-run of that election
at a date determined and set by the NEC but such new date be set so that
election will be held and the inauguration of a president-elect and vice
president-elect will be on the third working Monday of January (January 15,
2018) in compliance with the Constitution. A new election is allowed to be
held within sixty (60) days after the NEC or the Supreme Court annuls an
election. The Constitution, Art. 83(e).
2. To, if the NEC determines that the irregularities and frauds do not rise to
the level to cause a cancellation of the presidential election, cancel the re-run
of the presidential election on November 7, 2017 and institute corrective
measures in compliance with law and internationally acceptable standards
and acceptable to Intervenors, such as but not limited to publication of a final
voter registration roll and the correction of all the irregularities identified and
described in this Complaint. AND,
3. To set a new date, other than November 7, 2017, for the re-run of the
presidential election, but that the aforesaid re-run date be such that
inauguration of a president-elect and vice president-elect will take place on
January 15, 2018 (the third working Monday of that month) in compliance
with the Constitution; and
4. To grant unto intervenors any other and further relief as is made and
provided by law.
REPECTPULLY SUBMITTED:
Joseph Nyumah Boakai and James
Emmanuel Nuquay, Presidential and
Vice Presidential Candidates at the
October 10, 2017 Elections and the
Unity Party, all of Liberia….MOVANTS”
As we did earlier in this Opinion with regard to summarizing the essence
of the first complainants’ complaint, we herewith similarly summarize the
basic thrust of the second complainants’ complaint. Basically, the
intervenors/co-complainants set forth and endorsed the allegations made by
the first complainants but added thereto additional allegations and claims.
Further, however, while they endorsed the prayer for a re-run of the October
10, 2017 elections, they prayed in the alternative that in the event a re-run
was not granted that the run-off be undertaken only after the NEC had put