9/16/2020 NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION V AMOS SIEH SIEBO-MOTION TO DISMISS-FINAL JUDGMENT – registration of Political Parties and Independent Candidates, as evidence by the issuance of his “Candidate Nomination Printout 910,” on July 20, 207 by NEC, amounts to ex post facto, which is prohibited by the Constitution and international treaties to which Liberia is a State Party. Hence, “[n]o person shall be made subject to any law or punishment which was not in effect at the time of commission of an offense, nor shall the Legislature enact any bill of attainder or ex post facto law.” Liberia Constitution Article 21. Also, this fundamental requirement is in harmony with the Economic Community West African States protocol Article 3 on Political Participation, 2001. It says election body should “be independent or neutral and shall have the confidence of all the political actors.” Thus, the action of NEC is prejudicial and discriminatory to deny Appellant based on ambiguous rules established particularly for him, namely, integrity, credibility, transparency and fairness. For which, Appellant tenders these Bill of Exceptions. 3. Furtherance to Count 6 above, and still discussing the errors, mistake and prejudicial rejection of Appellant’s Nomination based on Public Policy, Appellant says NEC should take quasi-judicial notice of the general and final Nomination exercise for the 2017 General and Presidential Elections, which took place between June 19—22, 2017. By June 20, 2017, Appellant received his nomination package from NEC and filed his final nomination documents on June 20, 2017 at about 11:18am; he thereupon paid the final document process fees of US$500 (FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in NEC’s Operation Account Number: 02-206-30027-02, which enable him received his “Candidate Nomination Printout 910.” Notwithstanding Appellant’s qualification, his name was not included amongst the list of qualified candidates to begin his campaign, as authorized by NEC, without any notice of rejection to his nomination application. Moreover, NEC did not inform Appellant in any manner of his rejection until at the hearing of August 3, when public policy was raised for the first time as an issue, for his rejection. This action of NEC leaves the ordinary man wondering on what purpose is “Public Policy” cited or used as a condition precedent in the nomination exercise. Therefore, appellant is judiciary.gov.lr/national-elections-commission-v-amos-sieh-siebo-motion-to-dismiss-final-judgment/ 16/36