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Peacefmonline.com brings to its cherished readers and visitors to the site, the written judgements of all the nine justices who heard the election petition case as released by the Supreme Court, five days after leaving the public in suspense. In a 588-paged judgement, the court by a 5-4 majority decision justified why President Mahama was validly elected. There were four and three consistent judges who voted against and for the annulment of more than two million votes due to what the petitioners described as gross and widespread irregularities recorded during the election. Justice William Atuguba, Mr Justice Sule Gbadegbe, Mrs. Justice Sophia ADINYIRA, Mr. Justice N. Akoto-Bamfo in an �overall� decision dismissed the petitioners claims for the annulment of a total of 3,931,339 votes due to electoral irregularities in the December 7 and 8, 2012 presidential election. The dissenting justices who held the view there were issues to be settled with allegations of over voting, absence of presiding officers� signature and voting without biometric verification were Mr. Justice Julius Ansah, Ms Justice Rose Constance Owusu and Mr. Justice Anin-Yeboah. They declined to declare the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akfo-Addo as the validly elected president, but held the view that the votes affected by these allegations must be annulled and a re-run held. Click the link below to read all 588 pages of the written/final judgement by the nine (9) supreme court justices on the Election 2012 Petition: Final Judgment