53 1. 1st Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC) committed a reversible error when the BOC denied the Motion of the Appellants, requesting the recusal of Cllr. Jerome G. Korkoya, Chairman, BOC, because of public utterances of the Chairman, pre judging the evidence and issues of the case, while the matter was being tried before the Hearing Officer, knowing that he would preside over the review of the matter on appeal. The refusal of the BOC to have Chairman Korkoya recuse himself, deprived the 1st Appellants of their right to free and fair trial. Appellants' Allegation Concerning Serial Number 1. Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC) committed a reversible error when the BOC, in its Final Ruling, like the Hearing Officer in his Final Ruling, failed to take judicial notice of the public historical fact, which is so well known, that serial numbers were placed on the ballots, and not on ballot stubs, used during the 1997, 2005, and 2011 Presidential and General Elections. The failure of the Appellee to take judicial notice of its own records was obviously to justify it allegedly placing serial numbers on the stubs of ballots, instead of on the ballots, as has been the practice in this jurisdiction. 2. 1st Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC) committed a reversible error when the BOC, in its Final Ruling, confirmed the assertion of witness Lighe of the Appellee that placing serial number on the ballots would be a violation of the voters' secrecy. 1st Appellants say that it is not likely that the confidentiality of a voter, who marked a ballot behind a screen or other enclosed compartment, and deposited the ballot in a secured sealed ballot box be compromised because a ballot carried a serial number, which would have provided accountability and credibility to the electoral process. 1st Appellants submit that if it could have been done in the 1997 elections, it certainly should have been done in 2017. 3. 1st Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC) committed a reversible error when the BOC, in its Final Ruling, failed to take into consideration the refusal of the Appellee to use the Presiding Officer Worksheet. Among other things, the Presiding Officer's Worksheet would have indicated the starting and ending serial numbers of ballots used at a polling place, making it difficult for ballots in the ballot boxes to be replaced while in transit from the Polling Place to the Magistrate. Also, the Presiding Officer's Worksheet would have been signed by Party/Candidate Agents. In the absence of serial numbers on the ballots, not ballot stubs, there is no way of knowing whether the ballots in the ballot boxes were those that were assigned and delivered to a polling places, ballots that were cast at a Polling Place, or ballots that were surreptitiously stuffed in the ballot boxes after polling had closed. The Presiding Officer's Worksheet is found on page 90 of the "Polling and Counting Manual For Staff," prepared and published by the Appellee for governing the "Presidential and Representatives Elections 2017." 4. 1st Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC) committed a reversible error when the BOC, in its Final Ruling, failed to take into consideration that the refusal of the Appellee to use the Presiding Officer Worksheet created a cloud of doubt over the entire