As the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) prepares to begin a continuous registration exercise, all the necessary plans are on stream for the fingerprint cross-matching exercise.
According to a source at GECOM, an overseas-based company has been contracted for the exercise, and works are ongoing.
This newspaper was told that the process will take some six weeks to conclude. The exercise is aimed at ensuring that there are no multiple registrants on the GECOM database.
Unless this exercise is completed, the new National Register would not be deemed final.
However, this will in no way delay the beginning of continuous registration, which is expected to commence early next year.
Kaieteur News was told that the continuous registration process will, however, be office based, targeting persons who for one reason or the other did not register during the last house-to-house registration exercise.
The last house-to-house registration process was completed on July 4 last.
The Registration Transaction Report showed that 227,851 transactions had been completed for the period January 7 to March 7, 2008.
This figure represents 39 per cent of the estimated total of 591,297 persons who became 14 years or older by June 30, 2008, under this house-to-house registration which was earmarked to be completed in 180 days.
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