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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
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