Georgetown: Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, will on Friday announce her decision on the timeframe to be utilised for the national recount of the March 2, 2020 votes.
The main issues are how many workstations would be used for the recount and how long it should take to count a single ballot box.
There are 2, 339 boxes which need to be counted. There was no vote when Justice Singh and the six commissioners of GECOM met on Thursday. The meeting ended just after 12 noon.
On the table is the five-station proposal by the CEO, which takes into account the key role the high-level five-member CARICOM team will be playing in the process.
Sase Gunraj, Commissioner for the PPP, has suggested 60 minutes to count one box; APNU+AFC Commissioner Vincent Alexander has suggested 90 minutes. The Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, has suggested 120 minutes.
GECOM was also asked to consider a proposal of providing a live stream of the process where at least two members of the CARICOM team can view from their respective countries, in the event they could not physically be here.
Commonwealth Senior Technical Adviser Dr. Afari Gyan, a Ghanaian academic, political scientist and election administrator, is still in Guyana and he is expected to help guide Justice Singh in making her decisions.
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