In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:01:43 PM Central Daylight Time, Gunjur 
writes:


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> In a message dated 10/25/2001 10:25:43 AM Central Daylight Time, 
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> In the Observer:
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> >> 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.
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> 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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