Opinions of Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Columnist: Sarpong, Justice
"Addison says if 100 ballots are issued and it turns out that 110 ballot papers are found in the box what does the witness term it, if it is not over voting. Asiedu Nketia says it means "unidentified materials" have found its place in the box and will therefore be taken out."
Mordacious Asiedu Nketiah aka General Mosquito is showing that he has simplistic mind and not worth to be making decisions on behalf of any party or Ghana. If 100 ballot papers were issued and you find 110 ballots papers in the box after counting, you take ten out or what he terms "unidentified materials". How do you identify undentified materials when all the ballot papers look the same? How do you select the ten that should be thrown out?
The ten votes for Mahama or ten votes for Nana Akuffo Addo or you take five of each candidate? What about if you have one candidate with 102 of the votes and another one with just three votes? How do you decide which votes to take out? Folks, not only is it possible, you can have one candidate having 102 of the votes and another having only three. It happened a lot in Volta region where Mahama in some polling stations was getting 302 votes, Akuffo Addo with five and other candidates having zeros.
This is the guy Ndc has been praising to know the laws of the electoral commission even than Afari Gyan. That is not how the electoral law stipulates in the scenerio Lawyer Addison presented. The EC law stipulates that, in such a scenerio as lawyer Addison presented, the whole 110 votes should be discarded, that is, it should not be part of the final count to judge who won the election. Is Asiedu Nkwtiah paying for his illiterate description of over voting?
The scenerio as presented by Lawyer Addison apart from the pink sheets the Petitioners presented happened at least in four polling stations where what Asiedu Nketiah is suggesting was not done but the whole polling stations votes were thrown away. Is Asiedu Nketiah aware of what the EC did in that scenerio? You don't take ten votes out of the 110 and count 100 as legitimate votes, that is not the law and this Palm Wine Tapper turned Bui bricks making magnate goofed big time.
Now let's complicate the scenerio given by Lawyer Addison and Asiedu Nketiah's simpleton answer. Let's assume Mahama gets 100 of the 110 votes, Akuffo Addo, 4, Nduom, 3, Ayariga, 2 and CPP 1, how do you sellect the ten that should be discarded? Maybe genius Asiedu has devised a mathemathecal formula about how to tackle that problem and we are all ears waiting to hear from him. What a comic this cassava stick is.
Justice Sarpong
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