Not too late to decide on live streaming the recount

Apr 26, 2020 Letters

Dear Editor,

We, children of Guyana, many on this list who have voted for the first time, demand that our votes be tabulated and declared in a credible manner that reflects the will of the people.
We are leaving this responsibility to fix this political mess in a timely manner, solely at the feet of Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, the Chairperson of GECOM, because this is her job.
We all are fully aware that all of the electoral districts were legitimately declared save and except for District No. 4.
This district was not declared credibly because senior officials in GECOM abandoned the law and decided to do their own thing to ensure that the APNU-AFC is artificially declared the overall winner of the 2020 elections.
But irrespective of the action of these operatives led by Clairmont Mingo, with active support from his seniors in the GECOM secretariat, the buck for this proverbial fraud stops with the Chairperson of GECOM.
Under the law – Act No. 15 of 2000, the Election Laws (Amendment) Act 2000, the power to fix any difficulties that have arisen in the process is given to GECOM headed by the Chairperson.
To date, the Chairperson of GECOM has failed to fix the difficulties that were created by these political operatives in the organization, despite that she had said, “She is doing all that she can” when the evidence reveals she is not.
Madam Singh, as a former jurist on the Appeals Court, you are amply educated and informed of the laws to make an order.
It is disturbing to us to know that such a learned previous judge, will leave such a process to others. This is unfortunate.
It will be eight Mondays soon (8 weeks) since we held elections yet week after week, Ms. Claudette Singh continues to not do her job. All she has done was sidestep the real issues and found secondary issues to populate her communications with the media.
This has given energy to the school of thought that the Chairperson is not asserting herself in the process enough and this is contributing to the results not credibly being declared.
Why does GECOM have to take more than a week to finalize a work plan and a legal order to be gazetted that will empower the recount process? GECOM’s personnel including the Chairperson are handsomely paid by us to conduct elections. This nation has not gotten value for money from them.
The two main parties and GECOM have agreed upon a full recount of all votes cast in all 10 districts. Just get the job done, Madam Chairperson.
To bring back the confidence of the people in the process, we demand that there be live streaming of the process on national TV. We say no to any attempt to thwart the will of the people by way of rigged elections. We say yes to democracy.

Signed
Basil Bedessie, Juan Edghill (Jr), Kian Jabour, Sharon Kowlessar (Essequibo), Dr. Josh Kanhai,
Lenox Shuman, Sasenarine Singh, Ivan Bentham, Mohamed Raffik (Berbice), Forbes Moore,
Indrani Geeta Ramnarine, Stanley Paul, Netu Singh, Christopher Singh, Anita Defreitas, Vivian Fredericks, Sheldon Gomes, Asha D’olliveira, Kavita George, Gomati Kalicharran, Sherwyn Greaves, Vijatimatie Balak, Gladwin Abdulla and Vivika Niamatali

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