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earlier with 1109 votes which you indicated was a mistake on the part of
NEC; NEC took a red pen and altered this document. Look at it. Am I
correct? Answer: "Yes." [Page 37 of the Minutes—Liberty Party cross
examination of Defendant First Witness/Lami Lighe] 1' Appellants
submit that from the witness' answers to questions during crossexamination, the red-pen mark, deleting the number 9 so that number
of votes assigned to CDC would be 110, instead of 1109, was done after
the record of count had been signed by the Presiding Officer and the
Party/Candidate Agents. If the change was not fraudulent, the Presiding
Officer and the Party/Candidate Agents would had initialed the change
made on the Record of Count, subsequent to their signing the
document, and a Tally Sheet from the Collation Center, evidence the
official correction, would have been exhibited during the hearing by the
Defendant.
2. 1st Appellants say and aver that the Board of Commissioners (BOC)
committed a reversible error when the BOC, in its Final Ruling, held that,
"All would agree that a transposing error, which was corrected and did not
impact any candidate's vote does not constitute fraud. Accordingly, we
hold that the Hearing Officer did not err, and 1st and 2nd Appellants'
request for a rerun of the October 10, 2017 elections is hereby denied."
1st Appellants say that the BOC failed to consider several other instances
of fraud pleaded and testified to: (i) Amos Siebo, who was arrested as part
of an illegal voter registration ring. He was caught with an assortment of
the NEC voter registration card materials, including cameras, blank voter
cards, forms and printers. The Defendant's witness, Lami Lighe, testified
that throughout this election season there was no incident of any election
materials being reported missing from the NEC. The reasonable
presumption is, therefore, that Amos Siebo was part of a conspiracy to
commit fraud against the people of Liberia, involving someone at the NEC,
who had access to such materials. (ii) The BOC also failed to consider the
case of the Presiding Officer at Precinct #30073, Bardnersville Public
School, Polling Place #3, Montserrado County, whose hand was caught in
the ballot box, having broken the seals, as pleaded and testified to by
Darling Clinton, a witness of 1st Appellants. (iii) The case of an NEC
Presiding Officer, Josephus Cooper, of electoral district #3, Nimba County,
who was arrested with pre-marked ballots in his possession, some of
which he had already deposited in the ballot box. (iv) The case of over
fourteen Polling Places across Nimba County, spanning from District #1 to
District # 8 that had more than 550 votes cast; some with 178 more votes,
another with 294 more votes, and another one with 176 more votes, and
on and on. (v) In Zota, Polling Place #3, Precinct Code #06102, Shankpallai
Town, District #4, Bong County, following the close of the polls and
counting of ballots, on Wednesday morning, October 11, 2017, it was
noticed that the NEC Presiding Officer, Joseph Karlon, was carrying a
presidential ballot box on a bike, unaccompanied by a Police Officer or
anyone else. When confronted and interviewed, the Presiding Officer
stated that the ballot box was left behind. (vi) At voting Precinct #30121,
Polling Place #3, Paynesville Community School, Montserrado County, the
Presiding Officer, Moses Cooper, forwarded report to the Collation Center
at SKD Stadium, that the Liberty Party Representative Candidate, Kwisi