Georgetown: “Our system is so good that when the corrupt try to fraud it they are caught immediately. The beauty of a good system is that you can immediately identify them [fraudsters],” Chairman of a New and United Guyana (ANUG) Timothy Jonas said noting that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is obligated to complete the ongoing national recount exercise and declare a winner at the end of that process.
Focusing on a list of 172 names submitted to GECOM by Commissioner of Police Leslie James in which the Top Cop claimed that those persons were out of the country on elections day, Jonas said evidence of that nature has to be taken to a court, referring to an elections petition.
The attorney at law said there is nothing the electoral body can do at this stage with the claims by the incumbent APNU+AFC Coalition that migrated and dead Guyanese allegedly voted on March 02, 2020.
“These allegations are material for an elections petition and cannot be dealt with at this stage. GECOM has a responsibility to complete the count and declare a winner,” Jonas explained. “The information can only be explored in a court. So GECOM can’t use this information to override its own records. GECOM’s record now demonstrates that all persons crossed off as voted were present in Guyana on elections day.”
The lawyer said from the list of persons submitted by the Top Cop several persons have already come forward to state that they were in fact in Guyana and voted on elections day.
Jonas said the opposition People’s Progressive Party is currently pegged to win the recount.
