The list of alleged underage voters in the secret police report used by the Supreme Court to annul the September 7 presidential election included a 58 year-old woman and several voters over 18 years of age, newspaper Haveeru has found.
The police report claimed that there were 32 underage citizens on the voters registry.
However, it has since emerged that the list included a 58 year-old woman, a 42 year-old, a 27 year-old, a pair of 24 year-olds as well as a number of others over 18 years of age.
Citing the police forensic report, the four Supreme Court Justices that formed the majority opinion claimed that seven minors had voted in the annulled polls.
Moreover, Elections Commission (EC) Chair Fuwad Thowfeek revealed on state media last month that the commission had discovered that at least four of the eighteen people deemed to be dead in the Supreme Court verdict were in fact alive.
Following the revelation, the magistrate court in the Maradhoo ward of Addu City declared living a voter considered deceased by the Supreme Court.
The wife of a 48 year-old Male’ resident taken off the voter registry after being deemed deceased by the apex court meanwhile wrote to the Chief Justice asking for her widowhood to be reversed.
The EC and the Human Rights Commission have criticised the evidence used by the Supreme Court to annul the vote.
In an interview on October 19, Fuwad suggested the Supreme Court was disenfranchising individuals by invalidating votes of those who had address or name mismatches between their identity cards and the voter registry.
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The annulment of vote on September 7th to my belief was a prank played on the peoples by 4 two timing double crossing bushwhackers who should be handed over to the people to judged and punished!
The local NGOs, international community and every one who were well versed with democratic voting had vouched and said that it was a free and fair election, and even applauded the work of the EC!
Everybody knows that the first election was valid, free and fair.
Lets all give them what they deserve this time!!!