Ginny, you basically summed up the design. Gbagbo prevented the electoral commission from announcing the results because "they were not signed by all the members of the electoral commission or certified". So he repeated this position as the clock winds down or until they could get a hand on the papers and disrupt the announcement. Once the clock ran out, the constitutional court pronounced the entire 2nd and DETERMINANT round election NULL and VOID for shortcomings in regularity and non-violence AFTER THE VOTES WERE CAST.

So even if 1000 people died after they voted, their deaths do not materially affect their right to vote how they wished. Their deaths are crimes and must be prosecuted thusly. The culprits of their deaths must be presented to the courts for prosecution.

I will share the deliberation of the La-Guinea supreme court with you and I know you don't understand French to legal proficiency levels. I will summarize for you that after having considered all the claims, counterclaims, allegations, etc, and addressing each individual one thoroughly, the supreme court basically came to the conclusion that garden variety crimes, even those unprovoked, if they occured after the requirements of ambiance during the vote proper,

1 - DO NOT MATERIALLY AFFECT THE VOTE COUNT or AMBIANCE REQUIREMENTS OF the act of voting.
2 - That one unassociated incident of violence, even if it solicits wholesale violence after the exercise of voting, is not risible enough to annul the civil rights of the victim who voted, or other innocents who also voted.

What you had in La-Guinea was that the contenders' claims, counterclaims, and allegations mostly went to the aftermath of free and fair voting, and the allegations of intimidation of their respective assessors does not warrant the annulment of votes of an entire precinct, when those intimidated voted properly and they did not attach the complaint of intimidation to their affidavits. In other words, they were gratuitous allegations based on hearsay.

Ginny, this pretty-much sums up the legalese. Their decision was based on La-Guinea law.

For future reference, this is how intimidation and preventions of voting should be handled:

1. If you perceive intimidation or threats that will affect your voting or supervision of votes, you must immediately report it to your head supervisor and your office and until the matter is satisfactorily handled, NO VOTING TAKES PLACE. Please do not wait until your candidate loses to complain that oh by the way, I was threatened to not vote, and even though I voted, I did it under duress of the threat, or I was prevented from supervising the voting at such and such precinct because someone told me not to show up. And even though my party sent another supervisor in my stead, I was not able to supervise.

I mean the claims are sort of similar to the dog ate my homework or it got wet and became unrecognizable.

Thank you GInny. The Movie is coming right away.

Haruna.

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