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record of count; (ii) a presiding officer being found with hand in the ballot box,
he having allegedly broken the seal after the poll watchers had departed; (iii)
arrest of a presiding officer found with pre-marked ballots in his possession;
(iv) seeing an NEC presiding officer carrying a ballot box on a bike
unaccompanied by any police officer; (v) report of a NEC presiding officer that
the Liberty Party presidential candidate had received zero vote at a polling
center when the subsequent count showed that he had received 28 votes; (vi)
a presiding officer had changed the Liberty Party presidential candidate vote
from 205 votes to 26 votes; (vii) at a polling center the presidential record of
counts showed that there were 2,550 as total unused, spoiled and discarded
ballot papers when there should not have been more than 550 ballots at that
center; (viii) at a polling place, the presidential record of counts showed that
1,109 ballots were cast in favor of the CDC presidential candidate when there
should not have been more than 550 ballots at the center; (ix) a NEC pick-up
was seen in a town with the occupants having opened a ballot box; (x) at a
voting place, although the number of ballot papers taken from the ballot box
was 177, yet one representative candidate was said to have received 246
votes; and (xii) that the voter registration card system employed a nine digit
numbering system beginning and ending with the number 7, which created
the possibility of 10,000,000 ballots for a country with a populace of only 4.5
million, the intent being to provide room for fraud.
(c) With respect to the third set of allegations that there were gross
irregularities, the complaint cited (i) the lack of verification of the number of
ballot papers at polling places with the starting and ending numbers not being
recorded and attested to by party representatives, which was a calculated
conduct on the part of the NEC to compromise the credibility of the entire
electoral process; (ii) failure to use presiding officer worksheet which
prevented reconciling the number of ballot papers brought to each center and
the number of ballots cast; (iii) at a polling place, because a number of persons
were noticed coming from the rear of the building after the polls had closed
and the ballot box sealed, the presiding office proceeded to break the seal of
the ballot box and to allow new persons to vote; (iv) at a district in Nimba
County, there were only three polling places when there should have been