Amid repeated objections from the Defense, former Presidential Candidate of the Liberty and Justice party, Lenox Shuman, said he had repeatedly objected to a number of discrepancies during the tabulation of the votes cast in Region 4, as he took the stand on Monday and testified in the ongoing 2020 election fraud trial.

Nine election officials and political leaders, including the former Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield and the former Deputy CEO, Roxanne Myers, are currently on trial, accused of attempting to declare fraudulent results during the course of the 2020 Elections. They have all denied the charges.

Today, Mr. Shuman, who had led the Liberty and Justice Party (JLP) into the 2020 Elections, told the acting Chief Magistrate, Faith McGusty that he witnessed an attempt to abort the use of Statements of Poll (SOPs) in exchange for a populated spreadsheet, adding that on a number of occasions the numbers called by the Elections Officers in the Tabulation Room at the Ashmin’s Building were inconsistent with the SOPs in his possession.

But Defense Attorneys Nigel Hughes, Eusi Anderson and Darren Wade sought to drill holes in Shuman’s testimony, after making several objections on the grounds that Shuman was either providing irrelevant information, not the authority to speak on issues like SOPs or was unable to identify key individuals he sought to implicate in the election debacle.

Shuman told the Court that on March 3, 2020 when he got to the Region 4 Tabulation Centre, there was a “commotion” over an attempt to halt the tabulation of the SOPs.

He recalled that the GECOM counting agents, including a pregnant woman, had complained of being tired, and it was at that point that a suggestion was made for a spreadsheet to be used in the place of the SOPs.

Shuman told the Court he strongly objected, and made his position clear to the then Chief Election Officer, that the established process should be followed. The CEO, according to him, acquiesced but the problem did not stop there.

He said moments later, political agents in the room observed that the counting agents were making a number of mistakes, which included the numbers that were being tabulated by the counting agents not corresponding with their SOPs.

Shuman told the Court that it was then that GECOM staffer, Enrique Livan took over the process but the “errors” only got worse.

“What he was calling was not consistent with what was being displayed on the SOP…and so, we would protest, that is not what is being displayed,” Shuman testified.

He said Livan later aborted the process and left the tabulation room with GECOM’s computer after party agents and observers had protested against the “inconsistencies” that were observed in the numbers.

“After I protested, Mr. Livan closed his computer, packed up his computer and preceded out of the room…When Mr. Livan exited the room, there was an uproar as to why this process had to stop again. He exited the room….he entered another room. When I looked through the curtains, I saw Mr. Livan in front of the computer, in what seems like a typing motion. There was a flash drive in the computer,” Shuman said.

He said Livan was confronted by agents of a number of political parties as to what he was doing with the computer.

“I along with others started to question Mr Livan as to what he was doing with the computer that we were using the Tabulation Room. I also reached over to the printer and I saw a stock of paper that was still being printed. I looked at it and I saw what I would day is pre-populated numbers from Region 4 with all the votes. Mr. Livan after all the discussions did not say a word. He simply closed the computer screen down and put his head on the desk and said nothing,” he recalled.

The police, he added, were called in.

Later in his testimony, Shuman testified about an alleged attempt by the then Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo to prematurely declare the regional results on March 5.

The trial is ongoing.

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