GECOM has been forthright in its information sharing and has utilized every medium available

May 09, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Please permit me to respond to a letter written by one Tabia Drakes entitled: “The electorate needs urgent information from GECOM” published in some sections of the media on May 1, 2015. In this missive the writer argues two main points, the first being that, “Many persons search the Official List of Electors (OLE) to find their names, and much to their frustration they cannot locate their names”.
GECOM would like to categorically state that it published the Preliminary List of Electors and commenced its Claims and Objections exercise on February 9, 2015, which ended on March 1, 2015.
Persons were asked during the Claims subset of the exercise to check the Preliminary List of Electors for their names, to ensure their particulars on the List were correct. Persons who would have been 18 years and over by April 30, 2015, had an opportunity to conduct a registration transaction.
Those wishing to have name changes, transfers and their photographs retaken also had an opportunity to get those done during the Claims subset of the exercise which came to an end on Sunday February 22, 2015. Therefore, for the writer to suggest that ‘persons’ are not finding their names on the Official List of Electors, the writer may want to inquire of those ‘persons’ if they would have completed a registration transaction.
All registered persons who would be 18 years and over by April 30, 2015, are listed on the Official List of Electors. The Official List of Electors available on the GECOM website at www.gecom.org.gy has a search component that enables a registered elector to enter either his or her name or ID number to see their particulars listed on the Official List of Electors.
GECOM would also like to point out that there is now another search engine mechanism on the website headlined: Know your Polling Station where a registered elector can enter either his or her ID card number, name and/or address and instantly see the Polling Station at which he or she would be voting on Election Day. This link is also available on the GECOM Facebook page for easy access.
The second point of note that the letter writer addressed was that “…some Polling Places have been changed without notice to the voting public.”
GECOM is not aware that any of its Polling Stations has been changed without the information being placed in the public domain. Actually, GECOM posted its Notice of Poll at Polling Stations in all the Registration Districts throughout the country. GECOM has also been consistently publishing in the media the list of Polling Stations for all the Registration Districts in an effort to sensitize the electorate about where they have to go to vote on Election Day.
GECOM is currently engaged in a series of communication activities aimed at creating national awareness about a number of critical electoral issues, including the ways in which registered electors can get to know where to locate their Polling Stations as early as possible before Election Day. We entreat voters to acquaint themselves about the location of their Polling Station prior to Election Day.
GECOM has been forthright in its information sharing, utilizing every medium available. Notices, Advertisements (Newspapers, Radio and Television), Television Infomercials, Radio and Television Interviews, Radio Time Signals, Facebook, Flyers, Posters, Billboards, Shortwave Radio Messages, Mobile Public Address Systems, Press Releases, and Press Conferences have all been communication vehicles utilized by GECOM to get its Civic and Voter Education messages to the electorate across the entire country.
Richard Francois
Public Relations Officer, GECOM

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