Georgetown : The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has received 35,055 applications for new registration and 3,791 applications for change/correction during the recently concluded 3rd Cycle of Continuous Registration which commenced on March 17, 2012 and ended on June 18, 2012.
Applications for the registration transactions were received at the 27 permanent Registration Offices which are located strategically across all of Guyana’s ten Registration Districts.
The implementation of the 3rd Cycle of Continuous Registration was supported with the deployment of Mobile Registration Units (MRUs) in a deliberate endeavor targeting eligible persons from far flung riverain and hinterland communities who are faced with extreme difficulties in visiting the established Registration Offices, that are responsible for their respective communities, because of the lack of reliable and affordable transportation facilities.
The Staff of the various Registration Offices are currently engaged in verifying the residency status of applicants for registration, this being an integral part of the registration process
Consequent upon the completion of the continuing verification activities, and the sequential encoding of the particulars of the applicants i.e. an ongoing exercise as the details of verified applicants are received at the GECOM Secretariat, all of the newly captured fingerprints will be dispatched overseas to be cross matched with the fingerprints of all registrants listed in the National Register of Registrants (NRR) to check for multiple registrations. Subsequently, all of the approved new registrants would be added to the NRR .Thereafter; National Identification Cards would be produced and issued to all of the newly registered persons.
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