97 and that although the NEC had quarantined 14 ballot boxes it had proceeded to announce the final results. To substantiate these allegations of irregularities, the 1st appellants produced several witnesses, first of which was Mr. Musa H. Bility, Chief Executive Officer of the Liberty Party Campaign, who testified that polling started late at about 90% of the polling places across the country, a situation which he said frustrated people and they had to leave without voting; that there was no queue controller at most of the polling places making it difficult for voters to locate their place of voting and that this situation prompted the NEC’s chairman to announce that everyone with a valid voter’s registration card would be allowed to vote. The witness stated that in Nimba a presiding officer was arrested with pre-marked ballot paper; that the NEC failed to use the presiding officer’s work sheet and that there were more votes recorded in most places than the number of registered voters. We note that although witness Bility testified to irregularities which he said occurred in ninety percent of the polling places and precincts throughout the country, his testimony fell short of mentioning the particular counties, districts, precincts or polling places constituting the ninety percent of irregularities he made mentioned of. The Court takes judicial notice that there were 2,080 number of precincts spread out across the country containing 5,390 polling places. In was important therefore that the witness should have been specific as to the precincts and polling place that were corrupted by the irregularities which he alleged occurred. 1st appellants’ second witness, Mr. Benjamin Sanvee, Chairman of the Liberty Party basically recounted the testimony of the 1st witness and reiterated the allegations in the complaint to the effect that the Presiding officer’s worksheet was never used; that the ballot papers were without serial numbers; that a Liberty Party Candidate in person of Mr. Kwasi Johnson of District #5, Montserrado County, was said to have gotten 0.0 vote on the record of count but after a recount at the collation center he got a 26 votes; that Amos Seiboe, employed in the office of the President at the time was arrested and caught with voting ID machine producing ID cards; that a record of count at a particular polling place showed that the CDC candidate attained 1109 votes more than fifty 50% of the total votes cast at that

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