Georgetown: For recount day number one, former Attorney-General, Anil Nandlall said the ballots that have been recounted supports the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Statements of Poll (SoPs) in the possession of the party.
He said that the PPP/C had made public its SOPs after the close of polls on March 2. It is based on these SOPs that the party is claiming victory and debunking the results declared for Region Four by Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo.
But Nandlall is now claiming that the recount of ballots has thus far, vindicated his party’s SOPs.
“By and large, the process has confirmed the accuracy of the PPP’s Statements of Polls, and that is the fundamental point I want to make…99 percent or so, of what has been done today, confirms and vindicate the accuracy of the PPP’s Statement of Poll…All we have done today; the ten boxes, every single one of them has confirmed in a material way, 99 percent accuracy that the PPP’s Statements of Poll is [sic] accurate,” he told media operatives outside of the recount venue, the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown.
The count for District Four triggered the electoral crisis after Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo utilized a spreadsheet which was widely condemned as fraudulent.
The ballot boxes have been seen as the key foil for any attempt to rig the general elections and have been guarded for weeks at Kingston and Liliendaal by a group called Guardians of Democracy, ordinary citizens and politicians.
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