79 for Democratic Change, would be satisfied that the "corrective measures" mandated to be carried out by Appellee had been satisfactorily done before a run-off election is held. For the CDHO's failure to include such mechanism in his Final Ruling, without which none of the candidates would be satisfied that the "corrective measures" mandated by the CDHO had taken place, Appellants/ Intervenors excepted and presented the issue to the NEC Board but the NEC Board failed and neglected to pass on it. And so Appellants/ Intervenors except. 50. Appellants/Intervenors, jointly with Appellants/Complainants (Charles Walker Brumskine and Harrison S. Karnwea, Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates of the Liberty Party, all Representative Candidates of the Liberty Party and the Liberty Party itself), filed a Motion to Recuse before the NEC Board in which they requested that Cllr. Jerome Korkoya, NEC Chairman, had made several prejudicial statements against Appellants/Intervenors and Appellants/ Complainants to the media criticizing them for pursuing this legal course of action, stating that the legal course of action was "politically motivated" and had no merits. The press statements were made while the matter was pending before the CDHO; and Appellants/Intervenors, having determined that the NEC Chairman had prejudged them and the matter and was therefore unfit to give them a fair and impartial hearing, joined in the Motion for the NEC Chairman to recuse himself from hearing the matter and from all matters in which these parties are involved with respect to the October 10, 2017 elections. A hearing was held and the NEC Board denied the Motion to Recuse; and Appellants/Intervenors except. WHEREFORE AND IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, Appellants/ Intervenors respectfully submit this Bill of Exceptions for the NEC Board's approval as the step provided by law for perfection of their appeal to the Supreme Court for review of the NEC Board's Final Ruling. RESPECTFULLY 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.” The Supreme Court, upon receipt of the bills of exceptions filed by the first appellants and while awaiting the bill of exceptions of the second appellants, and as is common with elections proceedings before the Court, ordered the NEC to forward to the Court within twenty-four (24) hours the entire records of the proceedings held before the NEC, and directed that the parties file their respective briefs within forty-eight (48) hours of receipt of the bill of exceptions by the Court. In compliance with the mentioned directive, the records were forwarded to the

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