9/16/2020 NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION V AMOS SIEH SIEBO-MOTION TO DISMISS-FINAL JUDGMENT – hearing officer’s decision although the said officers applied rules which were squarely applicable to ‘voting’ and therefore could not have affected a candidate’s nomination. Moreover, we are tempted to ask the question, if the respondent/ appellant was of the belief that the Nomination Committee was without authority to make such a determination of rejecting his application, why did he appear before the Nomination Committee without raising any objection to its jurisdiction to process his application; why did he appear before the Board of Commissioners to review the decision of the Nomination Committee without questioning the jurisdiction of the Nomination Committee? Or had the Nomination Committee qualified him to contest the elections, would he have objected to the findings of the Committee on the basis of jurisdiction? We have made the point only to alert the respondent/appellant of the insignificance of the arguments made and that he had chosen an issue which squarely was a non-issue since the National Elections Commission is statutorily clothed with the authority to establish within the institution such components as may be necessary to help facilitate the work of the Commission. We shall therefore not dwell any further on that issue and instead revert to the core issue of whether the respondent/appellant filed his bill of exceptions without the time prescribed or allowed by law. In regard to the foregoing, we note that the National Elections Commission, in fulfillment of the authority granted it by the National Legislature to formulate and enforce guidelines controlling the conduct of all elections for elective public offices, and done in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution and the Elections Law, has on sundry occasions prescribed rules for the governance of elections and other related matters, including the procedures for perfecting appeals taken to the Honorable Supreme Court by person whose applications for nomination to contest an elective public position are rejected by the Commission, as in the instant case. We take judicial notice, as the law requires us to do, [Nasscorp v. Natt, Supreme Court Opinion, October term, 2012] of the “Compilation of Regulations” approved and published by the National Elections Commission on August 22, 2016, which addresses the procedures for the taking of appeals to the judiciary.gov.lr/national-elections-commission-v-amos-sieh-siebo-motion-to-dismiss-final-judgment/ 28/36