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Veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of The vision The Kwesi Pratt Jr. newspaper believes that “pink sheets” are not the only form of evidence that a political party can present in court to support claims of voter fraud.
For him, although the pink sheets can be considered as an “electoral bible”, the factual evidence in the form of images showing figures from the elections manipulated to help the incumbent, cannot be discounted either.
He was responding to calls from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to move into the legal arena rather than simply making sentimental pronouncements and backing up claims that (the opposition party) won the majority of seats in the parliament and the presidency in the elections of December 7 with evidence of pink sheet.
“I’ve heard a lot of people come up and say if you have a problem, go ahead and bring your pink sheets. I don’t think it’s the right attitude”, He opined.
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Every dispute ain’t about pink sheets
Kwesi Pratt, who spoke in Wednesday’s edition of Good morning Ghana in Metro TV, He said that considering the controversial nature of the 2020 polls, an independent forensic audit of the election results will be a better option than pink sheets.
“Yes, the pink leaves are important, yes the pink leaves are considered as the bible of electoral declarations from the polling stations to the polling stations, that is why the pink leaves are important, but it is not all that the pink leaf tells us and it is not all dispute that it is about the pink sheets. . .
“Here we have a case in which the figures do not add up, here we have a case in which the percentages do not add up, so an independent audit of what the EC has declared even without the pink sheet should be able to give us satisfaction”He added.
Questionable electoral figures
Mr. Pratt also doubts the figures declared by the Chairman of the Election Commissioner that saw Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo win the December 7 presidential election.
“If you use the figures presented by the EC, some mathematicians have concluded that now the percentage will increase (beyond 100%)“, He claimed.
The court cannot always resolve electoral disputes
According to the veteran journalist, the idea that political parties seek legal redress in electoral disputes “is not always the best.”
“Yes, political parties can decide to go to court, but I submit seriously that it is not just the court that can help us resolve the matter before us. Even audit firms can help us establish the true status of the results published by the EC.”, Pontifical.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo / Peacefmonline.com / Ghana
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