Georgetown: A one-day training exercise for over eighty employees who will be counting and supervising the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) national recount of votes cast on March 2, 2020 was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Thursday where the recount is slated to take place.
Reports indicate that four employees, including a supervisor, will be present at each of the ten recount stations.
“The process basically this morning is to go through the methodology that has been developed for the recount to apprise the staff of the procedure it entails and actually to give them a walkthrough as to their respective stations that they will be at and to give them an idea as to the practical examples as to the process that will unfold when the recount starts,” Public Relations Officer of GECOM Yolanda Ward said.
The electoral body has already agreed on a work plan and an order to be gazetted once the CARICOM recount team confirms its date of arrival.
The team was given approval to land in Guyana today but GECOM has not been informed of when the team will now arrive.
The recount will start with the staff taking notes of what is contained in the ballot boxes when they are emptied.
There will be a rotation of GECOM employees during the 25 days of recount in keeping with the COVID-19 guidelines.
GECOM’s PRO said there will also be staff on standby “to ensure that we don’t have any slippage or pause in the process to ensure the recount is done in an expeditious manner.”
Also included in the training are persons who worked as Returning Officers on March 2.
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