in my affidavit and are also addressed in the statistical report attached) but does not change the outcome of the election. 45.6. The computation by the applicant, based on a turnout of 72%, does not, therefore, yield a correct result reflective of what happened on election day. 45.7. The 700 000 votes that the applicant alleges are unaccounted for are directly resultant upon the use of 72% as the final voter turnout in the presidential election and not the correct 85.1%. 45.8. Further, the figure that the applicant comes up with, 4 032 000, as 72% of the total voter population includes, by necessary implication, every vote that would be cast in a presidential poll including votes that would, on the count, be deemed to be invalid for one reason or another. The figures he indicates as the total votes cast from the announced results, 4 775 640, and from the data on the Electoral Commission’s CD, 4 774 878, both reflect the total valid votes cast in terms of the announcements and the data on the CD. 45.9. The 4 032 000 on the one hand and the 4 775 640 and 4 774 878 on the other are thus totals representing two different kinds of things the former including every valid and invalid vote and the latter only the valid votes. The applicant then proceeds to subtract, in turn, the two elements of the latter category of votes from the former category of votes thus yielding in each instance the 700 000 alleged unaccounted votes without taking account, in that computation, of the difference between the two things he has subtracted from each other.

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