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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