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 C- 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.

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