Full bench of judges for missing ballots case
Judge President Petrus Damaseb, Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula and Judge Esi Schimming-Chase will hear the application by the All People's Party.
KENYA KAMBOWE
RUNDU
A full bench of judges will hear the Electoral Court case involving the disappearance of spoilt ballots cast in last November’s Ndonga Linena Constituency election.
The bench will be comprised of Judge President Petrus Damaseb, Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula and Judge Esi Schimming-Chase.
The All People’s Party (APP) approached the Electoral Court to compel the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to explain the disappearance of 53 rejected ballots.
The application will be heard on 13 September.
Discrepancy
The APP made the discovery last month after it was granted a court order by the Electoral Court compelling the ECN to give the party access to the election material.
The APP said in its court application that when ECN officials opened the boxes containing the rejected ballots for the Ndonga Linena Constituency on 12 July, there were only four spoilt ballots.
The forms on the boxes for the 11 polling stations stated that there were 57 spoilt ballots.
The ECN would not oppose the application, chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro told Namibian Sun recently.
Close call
The APP took the ECN to court earlier this year because it believed it should have been awarded 40 of the 57 spoilt ballots.
This after the party learnt through its agents that some voters did not mark the appropriate box on the ballot, but made crosses on the face of the APP candidate Djami Daniel, who was announced as the runner-up to Swapo’s candidate, Michael Kampota, who won by a mere 12 votes.
The APP wants the election results for Ndonga Linena Constituency declared null and void, including the swearing in of Kampota as the constituency councillor.
APP also wants a recount of the ballots cast on 25 November 2020.
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RUNDU
A full bench of judges will hear the Electoral Court case involving the disappearance of spoilt ballots cast in last November’s Ndonga Linena Constituency election.
The bench will be comprised of Judge President Petrus Damaseb, Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula and Judge Esi Schimming-Chase.
The All People’s Party (APP) approached the Electoral Court to compel the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to explain the disappearance of 53 rejected ballots.
The application will be heard on 13 September.
Discrepancy
The APP made the discovery last month after it was granted a court order by the Electoral Court compelling the ECN to give the party access to the election material.
The APP said in its court application that when ECN officials opened the boxes containing the rejected ballots for the Ndonga Linena Constituency on 12 July, there were only four spoilt ballots.
The forms on the boxes for the 11 polling stations stated that there were 57 spoilt ballots.
The ECN would not oppose the application, chief electoral officer Theo Mujoro told Namibian Sun recently.
Close call
The APP took the ECN to court earlier this year because it believed it should have been awarded 40 of the 57 spoilt ballots.
This after the party learnt through its agents that some voters did not mark the appropriate box on the ballot, but made crosses on the face of the APP candidate Djami Daniel, who was announced as the runner-up to Swapo’s candidate, Michael Kampota, who won by a mere 12 votes.
The APP wants the election results for Ndonga Linena Constituency declared null and void, including the swearing in of Kampota as the constituency councillor.
APP also wants a recount of the ballots cast on 25 November 2020.
[email protected]
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