The constitutional principle of regular elections will be preserved at all costs

The application sought orders that the election rolls be struck down and declared null and void and that the Supervisor of Elections be ordered to put in place a registration method for voting for all citizens outside of Botswana.

In the alternative the court was requested to rule that “an election procedure that does not some Batswana working outside the country, namely the second and third Applicants, to vote, was in breach of the constitution. A further order was sought declaring “the Writ of Elections for 1994 announced by the President to be stayed alternatively rescinded pending the putting in place of the procedure for registration and voting of second and third applicants”. In essence, if the Applicants had their way, if their requests were not heeded, there would be no elections in 1994.