EC Shot Down Over Smuggled Pink Sheets

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Created on Friday, 26 April 2013 00:00

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EC Shot Down Over Smuggled Pink Sheets

Yesterday’s hearing of the election petition at the Supreme Court was characterised by heated arguments over attempts by the Electoral Commission (EC) to ‘smuggle’ in pink sheets as evidence.

The EC, through its counsel, James Quarshie-Idun, had tried to tender in evidence that it claimed to be an original pink sheet used in the December 2012 general elections, when the Supreme Court refused to admit the document.

The commission was seeking to use a particular pink sheet from the Juaso Court Hall polling station to prove a point that the special voting that took place ahead of the general elections also had pink sheets with special codes.

However, the star witness in the election petition, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, insisted, during cross examination by Mr Quarshie-Idun, that there was no polling station code for special voting because there were no pink sheets.