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The Chairperson of the National Elections Commission Davidetta Browne-Lansanah says one of the NEC Commissioners, Floyd Sayor, inserted US$2.8 million...
Since December 15, 2021, when the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) charged and subsequently forwarded to court for prosecution the Chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Davidetta Browne-Lansanah, and her alleged accomplices fo
Since the 2014 senatorial elections, the number of election dispute cases have continued to show an upward trend. Recalling the 2017 elections and the challenges which followed that virtually brought the country to the brink of conflict, it appears the 2023 electoral process is now deja-vu. The most contentious issue at the time centered around the integrity of the Voters Registry (VR), which by all accounts had been severely compromised. The Supreme Court determined that the VR was indeed compromised and accordingly mandated the Elections Commission to clean up the VR before the conduct of t...
May 5, 2021 The second Liberian Republic has had a lot of ups and downs. Between 1980 and 2017, no presidential candidate has ever won a landslide in any given election as compared to NPP flagbearer Charles G. Taylor. 13 political parties participated in the 1997 presidential election. Taylor won all of them at once with 75.33% (468,443 votes). There was no second round or run-off. This was indeed a landslide victory. There were also 13 counties at that time but Taylor still could not win 12 out of 13. Even Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who won two successive democratic elec...
Was Justice Minister Musa Dean’s diktat to NEC to refrain from certificating Brownie Samukai as winner of the Lofa County Senatorial elections within the pale of the law? This is the haunting question that is weighing heavily on the minds of the public. The National Elections Commission as an independent and autonomous body does not and is not to take instructions from the Justice Minister, according to most lawyers this newspaper has spoken to. As a lawyer, the Justice Minister ought to know that there are bounds beyond which he cannot overstep. And those bounds are the independence of the...