Assembly and local authority, several managed to field presidential candidates that received votes across the country in the election. It cannot be ruled out that voters who voted for such candidates may have opted out of voting in the House of Assembly and local authority elections. 47.6. Most importantly, however, the issue that the applicant raises in this respect ought, if true, to be demonstrable using V11 forms and the presidential election residue. 47.7. Every V11 form has a ballot paper account i.e. immediately before the unsealing of ballot boxes and commencement of counting the presiding officer at every polling station accounts for the ballot papers received at the start of the poll. 47.8. The number of ballot papers received is recorded on the V11 form as well as the number of ballot papers used. The latter number is determined by counting the counterfoils of issued ballots. Once that number is ascertained, the ballot boxes are then opened and the actual ballots in the boxes are counted. If there has been stuffing of ballots, as the applicant suggests, the number of ballots in the box will be more than the number of issued ballots according to the counterfoils. 47.9. The applicant, however, did not seek to unseal the presidential election residue in preparing his challenge.

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