Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 2nd, 2020 (ZIZ News):
By: Chaïra Flanders
We have an update on the court case challenging the results of the June 2020 General elections in Constituency #1.
ZIZ understands that just before 6 p.m on Friday October 2, the Court completed segregating all the rejected ballots which were then copied by the Assistant Registrar for distribution to Counsel for all parties for further scrutiny.
This process of submissions allows the High Court Judge to deliver his final determination in the matter.
Leading up to news time, both parties agreed to file a schedule describing the number of rejected ballots and the nature and position of the mark on each rejected ballot. The court took a short adjournment to allow for the copying of the ballots.
During this time, our newsroom reached out to PAM candidate Ian Liburd who when asked about the developments in the case, said, “I remain optimistic that justice would prevail in this matter”, during a brief adjournment.
In the petition, there were 98 rejected votes, 60 were in favour of Mr. Liburd.
ZIZ was unable to contact current Parliamentary Representative for Constituency #1, the Hon. Dr. Geoffrey Hanley for a statement.
]]>September 25th 2020 (ZIZ News) The High Court Judge has granted an application to examine the rejected ballots for Constituency #1 in the June 2020 elections.
This is the latest development following a hearing on Friday morning in the case brought by PAM candidate Ian Liburd challenging the results of Constituency #1.
ZIZ has learned that the Judge has ordered that on October 2 at 9am the rejected ballots will be inspected in order for him to verify the claim that of the 98 rejected votes, 60 were in favour of Mr. Liburd.
On that day, In the presence of the legal teams the Assistant Registrar along with the Supervisor of Elections will open the ballot boxes and examine the rejected votes one by one.
The judge will then determine if each vote is valid after submission from the legal teams.
Ambassador Ian Liburd was unavailable for comment this morning but current parliamentary representative for Constituency #1, the Hon. Dr. Geoffrey Hanley told ZIZ News “I am extremely confident that the result will not change”.
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