Liberia: NEC GAFFES - But Doubled Back Deftly - Sets CDC on Edge

27 October 2011

That the electoral process gradually running into complication, like delivering a baby in footling breech, is becoming clearer by the day either by CDC's calculations or NEC's unanticipated gaffes. The Analyst looks at yesterday's drama in which NEC apparently played into the hands of CDC, boosting it ego and strengthening its suspicion, in yet another show of election irony.

No sooner had commissioners at the National Elections Commission (NEC) realized that they had erred in their certification communication to the November 8, 2011 presidential runoff contenders than they moved expeditiously, late yesterday, to rectify the error. Unfortunately, they were not fast enough as CDC adopted the communication as proof of the commission's partiality in favor of the ruling Unity Party, thereby justifying demands for its overhaul.

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