Blake, 6 votes for Andrew Holness and 0 for Steve Daley.
As a result of the
disfigured ballots the results of the final count showed:
Warren Blake
59 votes
Andrew Holness
5 votes
Steve Daley
0 vote
Joan Alexander, Presiding Officer, swore that when she.counted the votes
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and enclosed them in the ballot box there was no disfigured ballot.
Joan Alexander's
uncontradicted evidence leads to the irresistible
conclusion that the ballot box was tampered with.
Also the number of voters on the list 192 exceeds the difference in the
number of votes cast for the winning and the loosing candidates.
Polling Division 71
In respect of this polling division the Court is asked to conclude that the
ballots in the hands of an unidentified person is a tampering in law.
The
affidavit evidence of Alicia Smith, Assistant Returning Officer for West Central
St. Andrew, is that the identity of the person who collected the ballot box is
unascertainable.
I am of the view that the evidence adduced does not amount to
tampering.
The irregularity would, to my mind, be more appropriately
considered under Ground 3.