Georgetown: A New United Guyana (ANUG) has formally prepared a document that is separate to the Observation Reports (OR), which registers the party’s findings with regards to the striking variances between the Statements of Recount( SOR) produced and numbers called out by Returning Officer for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, at both the Ashmin’s Building on High Street, and the head office of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) at Kingston.
This report has been submitted to the GECOM Chair, Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, and will be considered during the deliberations of the Commission.
Previously, Singh had upheld a decision made by Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, preventing any reference to Mingo’s fraudulent vote tabulation in recount observer reports.
Instead, the Chair invited a separate report from ANUG on Mingo’s malpractices. ANUG’s report contains a table with over 100 ballot boxes, which illustrates inflation committed by Mingo in favour of the APNU+AFC. When Mingo’s numbers are compared to the SOR produced from the almost concluded recount exercise at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre (ACCC), there shows a variance of 4,442 votes.
A 33-day long recount of the ballots in Guyana’s March 2 General and Regional Elections shows that the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) secured a majority of the votes and pending a declaration by the electoral body, should move to form the next government in the oil-rich South American country.
But like everything related to what is now being described as the longest elections on record – 100 days and counting without a result – there may be more uncertainty ahead.
Figures emanating from the recount shows that the PPP/C received 233,336 votes (50.69%) while the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition got 217,920 (47.34%) votes.
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