From the moment GECOM called on the police to investigate allegations of migrants and dead persons voting, I saw three possible outcomes to the current elections dispute: (1) the evidence presented to the Commission did not taint the majority of votes in the boxes going to the party that won the majority, so the PPP/C has won; (2) the Commission finds it impossible to declare a winner given the weight of the ‘evidence’, so the elections are annulled, and (3) having been able to separate tainted from untainted ballots, the majority in the boxes cannot be sustained, so the Coalition has won.
The propaganda on all sides is so enormous that even if by the time this article is published the final decision of the Commission has been given, not only will that decision most likely be challenged in the courts but a greater degree of clarity is likely to help us as we go forward.
