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Asante Gyeabour 12 years ago

Unless different pink sheets other than the originals which all the political parties hold the duplicates are presented to the court by the EC, I do not see how Afari-Gyan is going to defend the indefensible. Over voting is o ...
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Unless different pink sheets other than the originals which all the political parties hold the duplicates are presented to the court by the EC, I do not see how Afari-Gyan is going to defend the indefensible. Over voting is over voting and nothing else. No wonder he always chewing 'chingon' in court to calm down his nerves. I pray to God that he does not collapse and die in the witness box during his turn of cross examination
Be Bold 12 years ago

This is too high level for them. Even if their best lawyers can't get it how do you think the ordinary dumb NDC man on the street will get this? hehehehe.

This is too high level for them. Even if their best lawyers can't get it how do you think the ordinary dumb NDC man on the street will get this? hehehehe.
Jeff 12 years ago

If we assume that a polling station could have been involved in more than one of the alleged categories of malpractice/irregularity and therefore there was the need to label copies of the same pink sheet differently to expla ...
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If we assume that a polling station could have been involved in more than one of the alleged categories of malpractice/irregularity and therefore there was the need to label copies of the same pink sheet differently to explain the various categories, how do you arrive at the total votes in each category. Is it not by totaling the votes of each of the polling stations mentioned in that category as evidenced by the pink sheets? Or do the petitioners say that "because we have used another copy of the pink sheet of a particular polling station in calculating the total votes of one category of irregularity, we will not use those same votes in calculating the total for this other category. Will listing it as part of the category of irregularity and not using it in the calculation of the total votes thereof not amount to confusing if not misleading the court?
Concerned Citizen 12 years ago

Jeff, if a pink sheet had, for example, 4 cracks only one was counted for that particular pink sheet. The petitioners explained several times but that knucle-head Lithur would have none of that.

Jeff, if a pink sheet had, for example, 4 cracks only one was counted for that particular pink sheet. The petitioners explained several times but that knucle-head Lithur would have none of that.
SKJ 12 years ago

It takes only the man who has taken the pain to clear the brains first, and follow the issues as they unfold to make the least wisdom from the proceedings. Do we even border to know the method of labeling the exhibits? If say ...
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It takes only the man who has taken the pain to clear the brains first, and follow the issues as they unfold to make the least wisdom from the proceedings. Do we even border to know the method of labeling the exhibits? If say MBV... is the prefix for over voting category, how can we be so dumb to see nothing wrong with same polling station pink sheets exhibited twice as say MBV1002 and MBV1005 in the same category of over voting? Lets be smart!
Besides from what my good logical friend Jeff analyzed, should we not expect that the total number of pink sheets exhibited correspond to the number of polling stations petitioners claim there were electoral irregularities?
I REFUSED TO BE DECEIVED!
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Bawumia must be assertive in ways that would not come across as arrogant! Tony Lithur and co know that they have no case, but are willing to go blood! The NPP must be resolute!

Bawumia must be assertive in ways that would not come across as arrogant! Tony Lithur and co know that they have no case, but are willing to go blood! The NPP must be resolute!
yaw, USA 12 years ago

NOW THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW HOW GHANA IS BEING RULED BY EMPTY HEADED IDIOTS
THEIR LAWYERS CANNOT WIN A CASE AGAINST EVEN A KAYAYO

NOW THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW HOW GHANA IS BEING RULED BY EMPTY HEADED IDIOTS
THEIR LAWYERS CANNOT WIN A CASE AGAINST EVEN A KAYAYO
Nyansafo 12 years ago

Dr. Bawumia has stressed that in making the totals, the pink sheets have been grouped into mutually exclusive sets. Is this concept too difficult for NDC Lawyers to understand? My advice to Tony Lithur - I believe he is a pro ...
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Dr. Bawumia has stressed that in making the totals, the pink sheets have been grouped into mutually exclusive sets. Is this concept too difficult for NDC Lawyers to understand? My advice to Tony Lithur - I believe he is a product of tho old school system - Go and reference your Form 1 mathematics(JSP Maths 1), there is a topic called SETS. It will help you.
JACKUZZIE-BABY KEKE 12 years ago

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PINK SHEETS REFERENCED ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THOSE IN THE CATEGORY OF POLLING STATIONS WHERE ONLY ONE OF THE ALLEGED MALPRACTICES OR IRREGULARITIES OCCURRED. SUCH PINK SHEETS CAN APPEAR ONLY ONCE AS EXHIBITS ...
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PINK SHEETS REFERENCED ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THOSE IN THE CATEGORY OF POLLING STATIONS WHERE ONLY ONE OF THE ALLEGED MALPRACTICES OR IRREGULARITIES OCCURRED. SUCH PINK SHEETS CAN APPEAR ONLY ONCE AS EXHIBITS AND CANNOT BE REFERENCED OR EXHIBITED ANYWHERE IN ANY OTHER CATEGORY. BUT THIS DOUBEL REFERENCE OR TRIPPLE REFERENCE OR QUADRUPLE REFERENCE IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED. I CAN'T SEE YOUR POINT HERE BECAUSE DR BAWUMIA HIMSELF HAS SEEN THE REASON IN THE POINTS MADE BY TONY LITHUR AND HAS TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT YES THIS IS A MISTAKE AND SHOULD NOT HAPPEN BUT WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE DID NOT USE THOSE PINK SHEETS TWICE OR THRICE OR MORE THAN ONCE IN HIS CALCULATIONS. THAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT THING TO LOOK AT. AS FOR TONY'S OBSERVATION THEY ARE VERY ACCURATE AND ACCEPTED BY DR BAWUMIA ...SO FOR YOU HERE TO BE STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND THE LOGIC AND NOW FURTHER CONFUSING THE IGNORANT READERS IS A BIG DISSERVICE YOU ARE DOING. DON'T GET CONFUSED ...AND DO NOT TALK ABOUT SETS AND ALL THAT LOGIC BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ON THE BALL TO DEAL WITH THIS ISSUE. YOU ARE VERY POOR AT THE ANALYSIS. SO MY SUMMARY FOR YOU IS THAT YES SOME PINK SHEETS CAN APPEAR TWO THREE FOUR TIME DEPENDING ON HOW MANY OF THE ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES WAS NOTED AT A PARTICULAR POLLING STATION. SOME PINK SHEETS ARE ALSO TO APPEAR ONLY ONCE AS EXHIBITS IN THE CASE OF POLLING STATIONS WHERE ONLY ONE TYPE OF IRREGULARITY OCCURRED....AND THIS IS THE TYPE THAT TONY LITHUR IS DEALING WITH. I HOPE MY LESSONS TO YOU HAS CLEARED YOUR HAZY IDEA ABOUT THE ISSUES AT STAKE.
leti 12 years ago

hahahahaha

hahahahaha

Kanawu Kumankuma. 12 years ago

Tony Lithur is an extremely brilliant and effective lawyer. Tony is streets ahead of all the lawyers Bawumia and Nana have.
Rockson does not understand the import and process of cross-examination and he is unfortunately car ...
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Tony Lithur is an extremely brilliant and effective lawyer. Tony is streets ahead of all the lawyers Bawumia and Nana have.
Rockson does not understand the import and process of cross-examination and he is unfortunately carried away by party loyalty so won't be sober and learn from what is going on in the supreme court.
us boga 12 years ago

this stupid Adofo again? this tribal thing has really gone into these NPP fools...foolish people....kwasiafoo

this stupid Adofo again? this tribal thing has really gone into these NPP fools...foolish people....kwasiafoo
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 years ago

AUTHOR: Brains-----------------------
I think there is an illogical thinking with my NDC folks. Let me try and break it down for them. When there is more than one irregularities in a polling station, any good data analyst wi ...
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AUTHOR: Brains-----------------------
I think there is an illogical thinking with my NDC folks. Let me try and break it down for them. When there is more than one irregularities in a polling station, any good data analyst will make multiple copies of the information (THE PINK SHEET) with each copy depicting one irregularity. So if three irregularities occurred in one polling station, there would be three copies of the pink sheet for that polling station, this does not mean the polling station has been counted three times. The three irregularities would be collated to their respective categories. Tony Lithur initially thought the copies were mistake hence his initial confidence and aggressiveness but when he realise the futility of his cross examination his body language changed but could not stop for the sake of face saving. Now what he is doing is to waste time
Kwobia-Toronto 12 years ago

Adofo you have no credibility.How can you explain anything to anyone since in all your opinion pieces you exibit lack of knowledge for all your topics.

Adofo you have no credibility.How can you explain anything to anyone since in all your opinion pieces you exibit lack of knowledge for all your topics.
Nyarko 12 years ago

Once again this idiot is here again to confuse us. Time will tell who is who

Once again this idiot is here again to confuse us. Time will tell who is who
Yamo 12 years ago

If the pink sheet copies were not intended to inflate the errors, then why were the not clearly marked as [COPY]? When these documents were submitted into evidence, why were they not identified in evidence as copies? Just NPP ...
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If the pink sheet copies were not intended to inflate the errors, then why were the not clearly marked as [COPY]? When these documents were submitted into evidence, why were they not identified in evidence as copies? Just NPP games to try and look like they have a case.
The king 12 years ago

As educated as u are, nobody ever told u the meaning of cross examination and how its being systematically done?

As educated as u are, nobody ever told u the meaning of cross examination and how its being systematically done?
Kaleem UK 12 years ago

Stop this stupidity. You've explained nothing. Let Bawumia rescue himself. More confusion awaits him on Monday. NDC is going to use your stupidity to floor you in this case. Mark my words

Stop this stupidity. You've explained nothing. Let Bawumia rescue himself. More confusion awaits him on Monday. NDC is going to use your stupidity to floor you in this case. Mark my words
Nyame Ekuma 12 years ago

Adofo, even if u dedicate ur Nonsense to Satan, Nana Addo will never ever become Ghana's president . Nonsense.

U think writing too much nonsense will change any thing ? Wise up and don't waste ur fucking time for this arr ...
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Adofo, even if u dedicate ur Nonsense to Satan, Nana Addo will never ever become Ghana's president . Nonsense.

U think writing too much nonsense will change any thing ? Wise up and don't waste ur fucking time for this arrogant evil Akyem dwarf mafia. Nonsense
Neutral 12 years ago

Well Said....So, no need for comments

Well Said....So, no need for comments

Captein 12 years ago

Wait to you understand and hear the proper version in common law the pursuit of reason and certainty soon.
It is impossible to know the conclusion to be derived from the Good Lithur lawyer.

If Dr Bawumia is an economist a ...
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Wait to you understand and hear the proper version in common law the pursuit of reason and certainty soon.
It is impossible to know the conclusion to be derived from the Good Lithur lawyer.

If Dr Bawumia is an economist and needed to be frugal, cut cost and do proper analysis theoretical and scientific his peers can judge him why waste time printing same sheets twice.

A proper Ph.D. should have categorized, classified or even grouped without the drudgery of duplication. Don't you think so.

In short it was clear he wanted to deceive the court, lie or whatever motive hence, he brought that upon himself. PERIOD. He should go back to the classroom son or sir.
NYG 12 years ago

We know that the petitioners tendered evidence (pink sheets) on some 11,000 polling station. My questions will be

:1. How many pink sheets were provided to court and respondents? If the number of pink sheets given to the c ...
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We know that the petitioners tendered evidence (pink sheets) on some 11,000 polling station. My questions will be

:1. How many pink sheets were provided to court and respondents? If the number of pink sheets given to the court and respondents were exactly the same as the number of polling stations being contested by petitioners, then we surely have a problem of duplication as being shown by lawyers for 1st respondent. But if total number of pink sheets presented to the court and respondents is more than the total number of polling stations being contested by petitioners, then Dr. Bawumia COULD PROBABLY be right with his explanation that duplications occurred in the process of transitioning from manual to electronically generated pink sheets.
2. Why were different signatures found on same polling station pink sheets? Did different set of people sign same copies? Were these signatories just endorsing the pink sheets as evidence to be tendered in to the court or were these signatures being purported to be signatures of polling agents and presiding officers then we could potentially have a situation of fraud and intent to purposely deceive the court. But the issue of who was signing what and for what purpose was not clear from cross examination... I WILL REST MY CASE FOR NOW!!!
Addy 12 years ago

How can you judge a case after only 3 days? It is better to keep an open mind than to predict the future and make a fool of yourself when all the facts are in.

How can you judge a case after only 3 days? It is better to keep an open mind than to predict the future and make a fool of yourself when all the facts are in.
asare 12 years ago

Akufo Addo ONE MAN many troubles..properties sold-in name of politics,by force presidency, missing certificate ,cocaine case.....Ghana is not ready for any 4 1 9 President like this heartless evil man name Akufo Addo

Akufo Addo ONE MAN many troubles..properties sold-in name of politics,by force presidency, missing certificate ,cocaine case.....Ghana is not ready for any 4 1 9 President like this heartless evil man name Akufo Addo
Future Judge 12 years ago

Of course,Almighty GOD is in control, yeah, He is control everywhere. Adofo you have no different interest than the so called petitioners have so don't speak as you are speaking for everybody. If Dr Bawumia has nothing to do ...
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Of course,Almighty GOD is in control, yeah, He is control everywhere. Adofo you have no different interest than the so called petitioners have so don't speak as you are speaking for everybody. If Dr Bawumia has nothing to do with those duplicated pink sheets that accompanied him to the premises of the supreme court where he was going to stand as a witness with evidences handy in his briefcase, why then did he take them along and presented them there? He might have thought the respondents or their lawyers might not look at them one by one to check anything thereby making him able to make his case sweeter with those duplicated sheets. Adofo, you mustn't stand afar and make those noise because everybody has a discerning mind and we are watching and listening to the proceedings closely.
TKG 12 years ago

Guys, before you start making lame arguments, I wish to state that, there are many people who are statistically challenged. The fact is, NDC defence should have sought advice from a good statistician because the key witness t ...
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Guys, before you start making lame arguments, I wish to state that, there are many people who are statistically challenged. The fact is, NDC defence should have sought advice from a good statistician because the key witness they are dealing with in the matter before the court simply relates to figures. Certainly, the witness will never be understood because what he simply did was to use a statistical approach or method to prove his case.

NDC lost in that direction. The type of approach used in their cross-examination will never do the trick. I wonder how one can use philosophical approach to address a statistical issue. I wonder how NDC intends to do it because at the end of it, all they will be able to say in their summing up is that the witness admits that he made a mistake so they can also make mistake. No!

NDC must be able to speak directly to the issues under discussion which they have not succeeded in doing, unfortunately. Assuming a lay person who is not statistically astute is to judge the matter, it is possible that the plaintiff/witness would confuse the judge by is method of presentation to their own disadvantage BUT in this case I see the defence giving the principal witness/plaintiff golden opportunities to explain his position/presentation even clearer to the referees. Now that the referees have a clear picture of the method and process used in the plaintiff's presentation the defence will shoot itself in their foot. Already, they have not been able to speak to the core issues at stake nor disproved any in the opportunity given them. Praise God it is a live court. I am afraid to say that "my party" is fighting a loosing battle.

To reiterate what one contributor has said, a good student will use categorization to group ease case and label it accordingly. Statistically each case may appear more than once in different category depending on frequency of occurrence. Each occurrence has to be labelled. You can either do a frequency table at the end and interpret it accordingly or run a statistical analysis to give you desired results. This is exactly what the witness has done. In running the statistics there is no way the computer will double count in one category. If it did you can easily pick it out if the sum total is more than a hundred. The witness is so used to running figures; to tell me such a person will not look at the totals or progressions in his analysis begs belief.

The problem we have as spectators in this trial is that too many lay people are seeking to comment on expert matters or are too emotionally attached to one party or the other and do not give a hoot about what they say or write. As for the propaganda, annoying as they may see, we shall continue to hear them but it is all nonsense.
TKG 12 years ago

What the witness did after his anaysis was to carry all his worksheet along with the Master copy (CD-Rom) and send it to the court. This is an organised student. Either NDC did not understand what he has done or they do not h ...
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What the witness did after his anaysis was to carry all his worksheet along with the Master copy (CD-Rom) and send it to the court. This is an organised student. Either NDC did not understand what he has done or they do not have anything substantial to argue so they are resorting to wasting time. Its good the SC has seen through this and pulled the plug on it. Cudos.
John Dek 12 years ago

You do not understand the issues yourself and you are confusing your audience.
Please take your time to learn about the issues and tackle them accordingly instead of always rushing to write an article full of gabbage everyda ...
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You do not understand the issues yourself and you are confusing your audience.
Please take your time to learn about the issues and tackle them accordingly instead of always rushing to write an article full of gabbage everyday.
Bawumia himself admits that labelling the same polling station twice with different exhibit numbers was wrong and they were mistakinly done and sent to Mr Lithur. Here you are saying that it was not wrong to do same. Do you understand the issue better than Bawumia?
Anya_Abasa 12 years ago

To direct unpleasant commentary at our
one and only "Nyamekese" of Ashanti!
Lord have mercy on this 'poor' soul.

To direct unpleasant commentary at our
one and only "Nyamekese" of Ashanti!
Lord have mercy on this 'poor' soul.
Anya_Abasa 12 years ago

But can you blame this 'clone' who thinks he is the real deal, if Bawumiah himsel,the much-touted economics wizard, is not too familiar with the protocols witnesses on the stand should follow.
Look, if I had to make a choice ...
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But can you blame this 'clone' who thinks he is the real deal, if Bawumiah himsel,the much-touted economics wizard, is not too familiar with the protocols witnesses on the stand should follow.
Look, if I had to make a choice between some of these individuals and Maame Akua Donkor,I would not have any difficulty casting my lot woth the true 'iron lady' from the Kwabre district. "Yei, y3se bese beto"!

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