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EC denies votes padding allegation in Election Petition case
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean A. Mensa has filed her witness statement in the December 7, 2020 Election Petition case currently before the Supreme Court.
In her statement, Mrs Mensa has denied that the Commission padded votes in favour of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the President-elect and second respondent in the case.
According to the EC boss, former President John Dramani Mahama, the Petitioner” is not entitled to the reliefs he claimed”.
She explained that the actual figures President Nana Addo obtained was 51.295 percent which met the “more than 50 per cent threshold in Article 63(3) of the 1992 Constitution.”
The EC boss’ witness statement is in line with the Supreme Court’s orders given to parties in the Election Petition suit filed by Mr Mahama.
In her statement, Mrs Mensa indicated that she was the Returning Officer of the December 7, Presidential Election.
She said the Public Election Regulation 2020 (CI 127) regulated the December 7, 2020 Election laid out four stages for collating of Presidential election result from Polling station all the way to the Head office of the Commission.
According to her, at all the four stages, the summary of the various votes were collated and recorded on Form 8B (Statement of Poll and Polling station results form) form 10, 12 and 13.