Liberia’s National Election Commission has slept on all the recommendations made by ECOWAS and a joint resolution signed by the National Legislature.
In a twenty-nine counts petition writ of Mandamus filed by the Collaborating political parties pointed that ECOWAS, report states that the provisional Registration Roll displayed at the registration centers throughout the country, claimed a good total 2,182,956 registered voters.
A writ of Mandamus is a court order compelling someone to execute a duty that they are legally obligated to complete.
Count eight of the CPP petition about the ECOWAS report or recommendation says the exercise, and before the final roll was published, a total of 170,000 suspected duplicate voters extracted, 4,567 of which were confirmed to report a total of 2,183,629 voters were published on the final voters roll, the FRR 30 days to the election on September 11,2017.
Given these facts, if 170,000 suspected duplicates were removed from the provisional Registration Roll, the total number of voters on the FRR ought to have been 2,012,956, and 2,183,629 voters as reported by NEC.
The ECOWAS recommendation Captured by the CPP in count eight of their motion said hence the conclusion is compelling and inescapable that the 170,000 suspected duplicates were never extracted from the voters roll and roll and remain there up to date rendering the FRR defective and unfit to lay a basis for elections.
The count nine by the CPP petition disclosed that ECOWAS report also started that the time it gained access to the NEC data base Dec 12,2017, the total number of registered voters was 2,183,629 and this equals the total registered votes declared by the NEC(FFR total) which also equals the total OMR forms said have been returned from the field and handed over to the data center for processing.
According to their petition, since the exhibition of the provisional voters Roll was carried on the 12th of June 2017, the total valid registered voters the team viewed in the database as at this date, was 2,045, 483.
From said analysis, the ECOWAS report concluded that between the time of the exhibition of the Provisional Registration Roll (PRR) and declaring the Final Registration Roll(FRR) a total of 138,146 records were added to the voter roll something the petitioner’s says that there is no evidence up to date that these additional 138,146 voters added to the FRR have been removed from the voters roll.
A release from the CPP further realved that “ the non-biometric nature of the Voter Roll makes it very difficult to carry out de- duplication despite the limitation of the OMR technology, extending it’s functionalities a little more to capture two fingerprints (thumb prints preferably) would have help for de-duplication.
“Digitizing those prints, using automated fingerprints identification system (AFIS) would have help tremendously the ECOWAS report said.
It further added that the semi automated method used could not have really help with cleaning the voter roll adding that someone who intentionally wants to commit multiple registration would most likely not used the same name multiple times”, the statement added.
CPP further narrated that due to the special circumstances appertaining to the 2020 senatorial election and referendum, the NEC shall give written progress report every third (30) days to the legislature and physically appear to react to concerns of the legislature so as to ensure that all problems faced by the NEC will be promptly resolved.
The opposition parties disclosed that the senatorial election and referendum will be held on December 8, 2020 among several others; the NEC has ignored and decided to do what pleases them.
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