Georgetown: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Sunday directed GECOM staff to ensure they use careful language in recording the observation reports, such as “alleged” when parties make claims of the dead or the migrated having voted, GECOM’s Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward said.
Such claims are being made by APNU+AFC representatives and the other parties are objecting, accusing APNU party of delaying the recount process by bringing up allegations which they have no evidence for and which in effect would have no consequences in the overall results which showed the PPP/C won the elections.
All parties had the opportunity to raise objections so the names of deceased persons would be struck off the national register of voters. But for the name to be struck off, the person making the objection would have had to produce a death certificate to make a claim.
In addition, agents of the parties contesting the elections, as well as GECOM staff, would have had the information of all voters to check off on elections day.
In addition, the High Court had ruled that being resident in Guyana was not a requirement for persons to vote once their name is on the Voters’ List. Several Guyanese who live overseas are known to have returned to Guyana to vote in the March 02 elections.
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