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inspection. Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence that Appellee
did not comply with this requirement of law; and yet in his Final Ruling
the CDHO did not reflect the consequences of this non-compliance by
Appellee. To which Appellants/Intervenors excepted.
6. Further to Count Five (5) above, Appellants/Intervenors'
interpretation of the clause, "...copy of each roll may be kept at such
places as Appellee may designate for public inspection" is that the
voter registration roll (or at least the portion relevant to each voting
precinct) should be kept at the registration centers and voting
precincts (polling places) for inspection by the public. Appellants/
Intervenors' interpretation is supported by Appellee's own Voter
Registration Regulations of August 12, 2016 (Art. 22.1 &22.2), which
provides that Appellee shall certify the FRR and print one copy for each
polling place. Yet the NEC Board ruled that only the Provisional
Registration Roll ("PRR") is required to be published at each
registration center, but that the Final Registration Roll ("FRR") is not
required to be published to be published at each polling place. And to
which ruling of the NEC Board Appellants/Intervenors' except.
7. That also further to Count (Five) above, Appellee's failure to publish
the FRR at each pooling place (at least that portion of the FRR related
to the registration center relating to the polling place) in violation of
its own regulation, is one of the irregularities, which
Appellants/Intervenors' complained of and which undermined the
fairness, freeness and transparency of the October 10, 2017 elections.
And for this reasons, Appellants/Intervenors' except to the NEC
Board's ruling on this issue.
8. That Appellants/Intervenors produced witnesses (including former
commissioners of the National Elections Commission) before the
CDHO, who testified that for all previous elections, the voter
registration roll for each precinct was published at the polling place
where the voters registered. This evidence was not rebutted or
contradicted before the CDHO, and therefore deemed admitted
pursuant to Davis v. Davis, 19 LLR 150. Yet the CDHO did not pass on
the impact of this evidence on the case before him. Appellants
excepted and submitted this exception for review by the NEC Board
but the NEC Board ignored the evidence and the impact it had on the
fairness, freeness and transparency of the October 10, 2017 elections.
And for which, Appellants/Intervenors except.
9. That Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence before the CDHO,
conceded by Appellee pursuant to Davis v. Davis, 19 LLR 150 because
the specie of evidence was not denied or rebutted, that Appellee did
not publish the FRR as required by Section 3.6 of the Elections Law and
Appellee's own Voter Registration Regulations of August 12, 2016, Art.
22.4. All that Appellee did insofar as the Final Registration Roll ("FRR")
is concerned is to place the FRR in electronic form on a flash drive and
gave it to seven (7) political parties on September 23, 2017. And this is
what Appellee considered to be publication of the FRR when according
to this provisions of Appellee's own Voter Registration Regulations the
making of electronic copies of the FRR was intended for the FRR to be