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and that although the NEC had quarantined 14 ballot boxes it had proceeded
to announce the final results.
To substantiate these allegations of irregularities, the 1st appellants
produced several witnesses, first of which was Mr. Musa H. Bility, Chief Executive
Officer of the Liberty Party Campaign, who testified that polling started late at
about 90% of the polling places across the country, a situation which he said
frustrated people and they had to leave without voting; that there was no queue
controller at most of the polling places making it difficult for voters to locate their
place of voting and that this situation prompted the NEC’s chairman to announce
that everyone with a valid voter’s registration card would be allowed to vote. The
witness stated that in Nimba a presiding officer was arrested with pre-marked
ballot paper; that the NEC failed to use the presiding officer’s work sheet and that
there were more votes recorded in most places than the number of registered
voters.
We note that although witness Bility testified to irregularities which he said
occurred in ninety percent of the polling places and precincts throughout the
country, his testimony fell short of mentioning the particular counties, districts,
precincts or polling places constituting the ninety percent of irregularities he made
mentioned of. The Court takes judicial notice that there were 2,080 number of
precincts spread out across the country containing 5,390 polling places. In was
important therefore that the witness should have been specific as to the precincts
and polling place that were corrupted by the irregularities which he alleged
occurred.
1st appellants’ second witness, Mr. Benjamin Sanvee, Chairman of the Liberty
Party basically recounted the testimony of the 1st witness and reiterated the
allegations in the complaint to the effect that the Presiding officer’s worksheet was
never used; that the ballot papers were without serial numbers; that a Liberty Party
Candidate in person of Mr. Kwasi Johnson of District #5, Montserrado County, was
said to have gotten 0.0 vote on the record of count but after a recount at the
collation center he got a 26 votes; that Amos Seiboe, employed in the office of the
President at the time was arrested and caught with voting ID machine producing ID
cards; that a record of count at a particular polling place showed that the CDC
candidate attained 1109 votes more than fifty 50% of the total votes cast at that