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At 5:00 pm today (November 15, 2011), Cllr. Elizabeth Nelson, Chairman of the Liberia National Election Commission, (NEC) is expected to announce the final results of the just ended presidential run-off election. Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the incumbent president will be declared the winner and given the Constitutional mandate to run the affairs of the country for the next six years. The 2011 Liberia elections has had its high and low points, drama, pain, death, and kept the world on tenterhooks for several weeks. The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) called on its members not to vote in the run-off election, calling it a boycott, though the NEC insisted that it was too late in the day to boycott the run-off as the names of their flagbearers were already printed on the ballots. Results already declared totaled 668,320 votes cast. Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf had 583,337 (90.6%); Cllr. Tubman, 60,801, (9.4%) and In-valid votes 24,182(3.6%). The results to be announced by NEC this evening, will shoot the figures forward, but will not change the results. The Economic Community of East African States, ECOWAS, and the international observers all declared the 2011 Liberia Elections free, fair and transparent.