Georgetown: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has agreed to have tabulation done on a daily basis for 90 minutes as concerns surrounding the tabulation of the Statements of Recount arose on Thursday.
“The Order will not be amended since at the end of every region, they will also go back through everything full process,” said GECOM’s Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward.
It was previously agreed that tabulation will be done at the end of the recount for each district but this was not in the legal order which governs the recount process but tabulation commenced on Wednesday with only 25 ballot boxes completed and all 10 districts still incomplete.
The Commission also decided that the observations for each box based on the ‘observation report ‘ from each workstation would be recorded during the tabulation.
Political parties believe that continuous tabulation will help to make the process more transparent as provided for in the legal order.
According to the order, tabulation of the Statements of Recount will be done at a central tabulation center in the presence of the CARICOM scrutinising team, representatives of political parties, international and local observers and advisors to the Guyana Elections Commission.
The Statement of Recount is to be projected on a screen to be viewed by all persons present and the information shall be input into a matrix, which process could be viewed simultaneously by all persons present.
The entire tabulation has to be broadcast live, according to the order.
Upon completion of the input of all Statements of Recount for an entire electoral district, the supervisor for tabulation shall ascertain and verify the entries therein and calculate totals for each column therein.
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