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Lawyer takes Elections Commission to court

Jun 19, 2008 News

Attorney-at-Law Frank James has filed a court action on behalf of another lawyer, Clifton Mortimer Llewellyn John, seeking an order to have the Elections Commission put up for public scrutiny, lists of the persons hitherto registered in each division where lists were put up, for the General and Regional Elections held in the year 2006.
The writ seeks to expedite the holding of the local government elections. It is also seeking they promulgate or cause to be promulgated regulations to guide prospective registrants and simplify and speed up the process of registration where there are ambiguities or discrepancies in the information supplied by registrants.
In addition, he is asking that the Elections Commission be ordered to invoke the penal provisions of the National Registration Act in respect to registrants who are eligible to be registered, and who refuse to register.
The defendants in this matter are the Elections Commission and the Attorney General, Doodnauth Singh.

According to the affidavit, John voted at the General and Regional Elections held in 2006 and early in 2008 the elections commission issued notices that house to house registration of persons eligible to be registered would be carried out pursuant to the National Registration Act Cap. 19:08 during the current year.
It also stated that for the purposes of the said registration, the elections commission also issued instructions that the list of the names of the persons registered would be put out by them and be available for perusal from time to time as the registration proceeds.
John, in the affidavit, said that “no enumerator has visited me for the purpose of my being registered”.
According to the document, several citizens complained to him that they have not been visited by any enumerator. In addition, the document stated that registration officers have complained to John that some persons refused to be registered during the current registration exercise.
There is great confusion and uncertainty encountered by prospective registrants where there is an error in spelling of name or where no name is recorded at birth or where a passport submitted has expired or where a person though born out of Guyana is a citizen of Guyana, John stated in his affidavit.

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