Malanding,Jabou,and Elhajj thanks for your input.
Beran
>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Break-down of VOTERS/Beran
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:34:48 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:01:43 PM Central Daylight Time, Gunjur
>writes:
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:25:43 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> >
> > In the Observer:
> >
> > >> Speaking to journalists at a press conference held at his Pipeline
> >> residence
> >> Wednesday afternoon, Mr Darboe who also presented a Senegalese ID Card
>of
> >> one Ebou Coli and a Gambian voters card of the same man said “there
>was an
> >> indiscriminate issuing of voters cards to anyone who presented a
>national
> >> identity card” without questioning and investigating qualification of
> >> claimants by registering officers.
> >>
> >> As a result, according to Mr Darboe, many aliens who secured Gambian ID
> >> cards before were able to obtain voters cards lamenting that revising
> >> courts
> >> were in some cases established as a matter of formality.
> >>
> >> Arguing that some magistrates presiding over the revising courts were
> >> corrupt and incompetent, Mr Darboe alleged that APRC’s Baba Jobe and
>the
> >> Youth Action Group effectively controlled the proceedings in the
> >> Mansakonko
> >> Revising Court and “determined the outcome of any objection.” His
>party’s
> >> protest to the chief justice, he added, produced no results.
> >>
> >> He said they had material evidence that the IEC had registered
> >> non-Gambians
> >> and a voters card of a Senegalese national was produced at a meeting
>held
> >> October 16, 2001 at the Kairaba Beach Hotel between the IEC,
>international
> >> observer group, the press and the political parties. He further said it
> >> was
> >> only after long protest that the IEC chairman distributed the head
> >> register
> >> two days before election. “Although the ruling APRC,” he said,
>“had the
> >> head
> >> register issued to them before the other opposition parties at least in
> >> Upper Fuladu West.” He added that the IEC once took a decision of not
> >> allowing those whose names did not appear on the register to vote which
> >> was
> >> reversed before elections “by Gabriel Roberts who appeared to be
>working
> >> under the directives of the APRC.
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> > Well, this was no doubt very good reason to boycott these elections, and
>I
> > am not exactly sure why this did not happen, and now is too late a time
>to
> > reveal all of this information if they had it before the voting.
> >
> > Jabou Joh
>
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