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Commissioners, Hon. Jonathan Weedor, Hon. Weedor said that
allowing persons with voter registration cards, whose name are not on
the FRR to vote, was a recipe for frauds during the October 10, 2017
elections. But the CDHO completely ignored this evidence and did not
pass on Appellants' submission that SMS verification system, which
was intended to be used to validate persons with voter registration
cards, obtained legally or illegally but who were not on the FRR, but
which SMS verification system had never been used before by
Appellee, undermined the integrity and credibility of the October 10,
2017 elections, constituted a recipe for fraud, and was useless to the
majority of the voters who are illiterate, did not have cell phones to be
able to use it, and even if some of them had cell phone, did not have
telephone connectivity in their areas to us it. The CDHO did not
address these material issues in his Final Ruling. And for which,
Appellants excepted and argued the issue before the NEC Board; but
the NEC Board ignored this specie of evidence and he effect it had on
the fairness, freeness and transparency of the October 10, 2017
elections. And so Appellants/Intervenors except
20. Appellants/Intervenors adduced evidence before the CDHO that
the SMS verification system managed by Appellee constituted the
creation of a second FRR, separate and different from the FRR given to
the seven (7) political parties in September 2017. This evidence was
verified by the fact that a comparison by an expert computer engineer
and data management specialist of the FRR given to the seven (7)
political parties in September 2017 with the FRR brought to the
hearing in November 2017 by Appellee under subpoena showed that
that the FRR which Appellee brought to the hearing under subpoena
had thousands and thousands more registrants than the FRR given to
political parties in September 2017. In his Final Ruling, the CDHO never
passed on this material issue. And so Appellants except and argued
this issue before the NEC Board.
21. Appellants/Intervenors say that the NEC Board relied on the selfserving, uncorroborated testimony of Appellee's Executive Director
that the FRR information on the flash drive given to Appellants/
Intervenors in September 2017 was corrupted and some was lost
when Appellants/Intervenors' data management expert and computer
engineer downloaded it for comparison with the flash drive that
Appellee produced under subpoena in November 2017 at the hearing.
Appellants/Intervenors submit that to prove that FRR information on
flash drive given by Appellee to Appellants/ Intervenors had been lost
or corrupted, Appellee should have had brought to the hearing the
same flash drive that was given to one of the other seven (7) political
parties
and
the
comparison
conducted
with
what
Appellants/Intervenors presented at the hearing in November 2017,
not the self-serving testimony of Appellee's Executive Director. And to
this, Appellants/Intervenors except.
22. Appellants/Intervenors also adduced evidence before the CDHO,
unrebutted and uncontroverted, that the SMS verification system
managed by Appellee was flawed and constituted a recipe for frauds.