Early this week, two women, who are senior public servants, were removed from the Regional counting venue at the Kokopo Secondary School after scrutineers noticed inconsistencies with figures.
They claimed the women gave 2,000 extra votes to leading candidate Leo Dion.
“The allowable ballot for that count was 4,000-plus compared to the Gazelle team’s figure of 2,111,” said the scrutineers.
“What was recorded on the (tally) board for count 3 raised alarm because the figures did not correspond to the Gazelle scrutineers’.”
