VIII 4.12.1 Notice of Appeal.............................................................................................................................................148 4.12.2 Filing and Service of the Memorandum and Record of Appeal........................................................................148 4.12.3 Filing a Supplementary Record of Appeal without Leave ..............................................................................149 4.12.4 Depositing the Security for Costs...................................................................................................................149 4.13 Appeals to the Supreme Court................................................................................................................... 150 CHAPTER 5 THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION............................................... 153 5.1. General Rules relating to Presidential Election Petitions................................................................153 5.2. Filing of Petition..........................................................................................................................153 5.3. The Response to the Petition...........................................................................................................153 5.4. Witness Affidavits.......................................................................................................................154 5.5. Service of Election Petitions........................................................................................................154 5.6. Security for Costs........................................................................................................................155 5.7. Filing and Service of Responses to Election Petitions....................................................................155 5.8. Pre-Trial Conference and Directions.............................................................................................155 5.9. Preliminary matters.....................................................................................................................156 5.9.1. Joinder ..........................................................................................................................................................156 5.9.2 Interlocutory Applications and Reliefs............................................................................................................156 5.10 Further Affidavits and Additional Evidence................................................................................... 157 5.11 Scrutiny and Recount/Re-tally..................................................................................................... 157 5.12 Withdrawal of Election Petitions and Substitution of Petitioners....................................................158 5.13 Hearing and Determination...........................................................................................................158 5.14 Burden of Proof...........................................................................................................................158 5.14.1 Legal burden of proof .....................................................................................................................................158 5.14.2 Evidential burden of proof...............................................................................................................................158 5.15 Standard of Proof........................................................................................................................158 5.16 Section 83 of the Elections Act.....................................................................................................159 5.17 Integration of Technology in Transmission of Presidential Election Results....................................160 5.18 History of Section 39 of the Elections Act......................................................................................161 BENCH BOOK ON ELECTORAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION