Mose,
Many thanks for butting in and setting the records straight. People like
Tombong and that dubious character, "Kebba Jobe", want to shrug off this
absent vote as insignificant. There is a sense in which that is
understandable: These people with their half-baked conceptions of the
machinations of elections and naked hypocrisy, don't have the capacity to
fully appreciate why we are raising the issue of the absentee vote and
linking it with the reports of vote-buying.
For starters, these people are dwelling on the wrong end of the equation,
i.e, the voter turnout vis-a-vis the actual numbers polled by the said
parties. To the psephologist [professional pollster and election experts], it
is always the extent to which the absentee vote would impact upon the actual
votes accounted for in an election, that should be the object of closer
scrutiny should queries/objections ensue. At this point, i pause to caution
not to engage in an ethical enquiry into or etymologize psephologists and
psephology in electoral machinations - this can only constrain us. Instead,
lets do some number-crunching to ascertain the extent to which the absentee
impacted/dented the UDP vote in Kiang. Here goes a breakdown of the figures
and again courtsey of Mr. Ebrima Sillah:

Actual Absentee Vote ---- 1056 representing 28% of the registered voters of
the said constituency. At any rate in closely fought by-election, 28% of the
registered vote is very crucial. To the extent that this is crucial is in
itself in the way this absentee swallowed the alleged APRC majority.

Actual Difference Between the Two Parties ---- 793 allegedly in favour of the
APRC.

Are these people telling me that in this case the 1056 votes absent couldn't
have helped nullify an APRC "victory"? Where are these people from? The
absentee vote actually swallows the alleged APRC majority by some 263 votes -
that could have been amongst those bought by Tombong and his acolytes.
Somehow, it is just easy to sink into these romantic and hypocritical hogwash
about what chanced during these by-elections than to tell it as it is. You
would have thought something as straight forward as this is easily discerned
by people with at least one brain cell. But what should i expect from the
mentally deficient and intellectually decapitated? Serious and honest
thinking? Not a chance, mate.
I noticed also the deliberately awkward, syrupy and tawdry PDOIS analysis of
the by-elections and how they are hell-bent on attributing irrelevant issues
to the aforesaid by-elections that makes one grimace disappointingly how
these people have been reduced to a rump of speculative  tabloid hacks with a
knack for personalising trivia. More on their analysis later on in the
evening when i can manage it.

Hamjatta - Kanteh
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