The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Electoral Commission (EC) permission to tender in evidence of five polling station registers used in the 2012 general election.
Mr Philip Addison, lead counsel of the petitioners, on two occasions objected to the tendering of the registers on the grounds that they were not the original ones used in the elections.
Mr Addison stressed that those used during the election had markings on them.
Mr James Quashie-Idun, counsel for the EC argued that B1 and C1 on the pink sheet stood for the number of registered voters in a polling station register and number of people qualified to vote; explaining that C1 could include proxy voters.
He said it was only proper for the EC to tender the register of each polling station so that B1 could be determined in order that the issue of those polling stations with over voting could be addressed by the court.
Mr Addison maintained that since the EC did not attach the polling register of such polling stations to its affidavit, it could not tender them.
The court by eight to one majority decision on two separate occasions overruled the petitioners� objections with Mr Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie dissenting.
Mr Quashie-Idun then led Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, EC Chairman to tender in evidence the registers of the five polling stations; which include Kwabena-Akurah polling station in the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo Constituency of the Ashanti Region.
The others are Temporal Booth polling station in Wa East Constituency in the Upper West Region, L/A Primary polling station at Dodi, in the Afram Plains North Constituency.
Dr Afari-Gyan in his evidence in-chief took the court through each polling station code, name, number of register voters and number of ballots recorded on each pink, and reading out the number of registered voters on the final register of the polling station for the 2012 elections.
It would be recalled that on May 28, counsel for the petitioners confronted Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress on the issue of over voting in some polling stations to which he disagreed .
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