Georgetown : Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally at a press briefing said that GECOM cannot sacrifice exactitude and thoroughness nor can they compromise their efficiency on the altar of expediency to produce the elections results.
“The hard copy of the Statement of Poll is what counts…telephone results coming in from the various polling stations all over Guyana is not something that we can accept, neither will we use that…We have a process where, as the Statement of Polls arrive, it is logged in and verified, the individual statement of polls that come in are scanned then verified…This is being done by Commissioners themselves…this is to ensure a high degree of accuracy…after the commissioners would have verified them, the statement of polls are scanned and saved as a backup record, after which it is transferred to the data entry centre where the data is entered then verified..After that information is verified it is sent to GECOM’s media centre and further distributed to other media houses for dissemination,” Surujbally said.
Surujbally also said that this rigorous process of verification is not to reinvent the wheel but, rather, to ensure that there is exactness in the result so that, when the results would have been issued, no one can say that there were irregularities.
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