BREAKING NEWS - PINK SHEET COUNTING -RELOADED It is interesting to note that the count of the president of the court’s pink sheets, which was pushed for strenuously by the respondents, has ended up even supporting the case of the petitioners and establishing that the petitioners’ indeed submitted over 11,000 pink sheets and that any issue with the number of unique exhibits could only have arisen from problems in service on the part of the registry, which served all the parties, as well as the Judges. The respondents had severally maintained that the petitioners’ submitted between 7,000 and 8,000 pink sheet exhibits including duplicate exhibits, and kept insisting that a count would vindicate them. The petitioners, however, in their comment to KPMG on the report, indicate that using a combination of polling station name, serial number and exhibit number, they have so far been able to identify 655 out of the 709 pink sheets with unclear or blank polling station codes. Out of these 655 identified, 343 have been identified as unique, meaning that if the duplicates are taken out, it would show that the petitioners submitted a minimum of 11,540 unique pink sheets Should the court sustain these two categories, annulling the 3,525 polling stations would see Nana Addo having 50.47% (more than the 50%+1 required) as against John Mahama’s 48.06%. Nana Akufo-Addo in this case would have a 230,000 margin over John Mahama. The count of the registrar’s set shows that a total of 10,333 unique pink sheets (including 709 pink sheets with unclear or blank polling station codes) were identified. Adding the 871 pink sheets from the president’s set not contained in the registrar’s set clearly indicates that the petitioners submitted a minimum of 11,204 pink sheets to the registry, taking into account only, the counts of the registrar and Justice Atuguba’s sets. Additionally, the 648 pink sheets used by the respondents in their cross-examination, but not contained in either the registrar’s or the president’s set, as has been noted by the petitioners, brings the number of unique pink sheets to 11,852. Revealing as has been pointed out in the comment of the petitioners on the report of KPMG, is the fact that out of the pink sheets used by the respondents for the cross-examination of 2nd petitioner, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, are a number of pink sheets not found in either the registrar’s set or the president of the panel’s set, indicating that the respondents also had pink sheets that were not found in both the registrar’s set and the president of the panel’s set. An analysis of the KPMG’s count, taking into account the unique polling station pink sheets as has been noted by the petitioners in their comment on the report, also reveals that the respondents (John Mahama, EC & the NDC) presented over 4,000 pink sheets in their cross-examination of the 2nd petitioner, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, out of which 1,097 are not part of the registrar’s set as counted by KPMG. Incidentally, 1,015 of these 1,097 are in the MB-P series, which is in apparent shortage in the registrar’s set. 648 of these pink sheets were not part of the registrar’s or the president’s set
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:17:37 +0000
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