{"id":2143,"date":"2021-01-25T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:27","slug":"court-expected-to-hear-hoima-west-parliamentary-losers-case-seeking-vote-recount-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/01\/25\/court-expected-to-hear-hoima-west-parliamentary-losers-case-seeking-vote-recount-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Expected to Hear Hoima West Parliamentary Loser\u2019s Case Seeking Vote Recount This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Leilah Bbaale<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2147 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/kasule-3-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/kasule-3-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/kasule-3-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/kasule-3-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/kasule-3.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>Hoima Chief Magistrates Court is this morning at 10am expected to hear the petition by Ismail Kasule, a loser in the Hoima West Parliamentary race who is seeking a vote recount.<\/p>\n<p>Kasule who contested on the Alliance for National Transformation- ANT party ticket was second in the race that was won by Dr Joseph Ruyonga, of the ruling NRM party. Kasule polled 6,212 against Ruyonga\u2019s 6,369 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Kasule who has sued Ruyonga together with the Electoral Commission wants court to order for a recount of all the votes cast in the Hoima West Division constituency parliamentary race and the cost of the application be paid for.<\/p>\n<p>He contends that there were several errors that happened during the counting and declaration of results by the electoral commission hence ended up falsifying results.<\/p>\n<p>Kasule alleges that there was manipulation of declaration of result forms (DR) leading to a declaration and tallying of wrong results to the detriment of the applicant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Hoima Chief Magistrates Court is this morning at 10am expected to hear the petition by Ismail Kasule, a loser in the Hoima West Parliamentary race who is seeking a vote recount. Kasule who contested on the Alliance for National Transformation- ANT party ticket was second in the race that was won by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}