The High Court has declined to hear a matter in which the Workers Revolution Party (WRP) and the South West Africa National Union (SWANU) want the 2019 election results to be set aside. A High Court bench of three judges this morning said the applicant failed to comply with the provisions of Section 169 of the Electoral Act that requires the applicant furnish security of cost. The judgement was delivered after the case management proceedings were adjourned for 15 minutes for the parties to sort out the shortcomings. However, the proceedings took a rather surprising turn when the judges decided to give a ruling right away, instead. The parties brought the urgent application with the fundamental argument that Namibia’s national sovereignty, as provisioned under Article 1 of the Namibian Constitution, was infringed by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) by using Indian-made electronic voting machines (EVMs) for national elections. The applicants argued that ECN subjected the elections to foreign technology over which they are unable to exercise control as the intellectual property rights of the EVMs belong to an Indian military company. It doesn’t matter whether or not there is a paper trail, they argue. They also want to present alleged elements of irregularities and want the court to nullify the November 2019 elections entirely. Notwithstanding the sudden court ruling, Amanda Tsoeu, representing the applicants, said they will ensure to get the matter enrolled back, as they are convinced, the judges are putting obstacles in the way in order to derail the merit of the matter from being heard. Judge Nate Ndaendapo delivered the judgement.