The work plan that defies logic

Apr 27, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Gecom chairwoman had offered no public explanation for her self imposed exile in a room in Ashmin’s building after Mingo’s desecration of the Region 4 results whilst observers and party agents sought her for an explanation. The opposition leader at that moment had alleged that she was being “held hostage” by APNU supporters. I do not recall the chair confirming or dispelling that allegation.
Her silence after emerging from what had seemed like a secret tryst with the APNU/AFC at a critical moment when she needed to be assertive does not auger well for the transparency and credibility of the recount. Not with the chair refusing to live stream the recount and dictating that the recount be done on 4 regions at the same time through a medium of a meagre 10 work stations.
It is a recipe for chaos and confusion that could make Mingo’s abomination pale in comparison. Given the way she seemed overwhelmed or perhaps her pretence, when Mingo had twice abrogated from a simple process, had she decided to recount one Region at a time and live stream same, it may have inspired some confidence in her desire to do what is right for Guyana.
Four Regions at the same time, minus live streaming, when the lack of transparency and credibility of the process, proliferated by one Mingo, is the reason that got us to a recount. This is enough to make me “smell a rat”. Something has to be wrong with your perceptive power if you don’t smell one too!
Gecom chair dictating the recount procedures to be in conformity with those at the close of poll on E day whilst refusing to set aside the declarations on grounds that there is nothing to replace them is mind boggling.
Where is the logic in grounding the procedure in” close of poll” mode where there should be no known result, while hanging a result over the recount that identified a winner – a winner that she, by virtue of Gecom SOPS, knows is the loser? I would like to hear her explain this anomaly to the Guyanese people. The chair’s work plan is more in sync with creating a result rather than discovering one.
A fair procedure would have been to publish Gecom SOPs for the 10 regions now and see how the recount, one Region at a time, matched expectations recorded on SOPs.
The fact that the chair, vested with sweeping powers, did not direct the recount in conformity to the acts that speak directly to a resolution by a recount (sections 84(6-11), 87, 89(1) and 9) is a clear indication of a snare set to fall back to the fraudulent results, when the recount is derailed.
The PPP should call for publication of Gecom SOPS or sanctions on Gecom chair rather than a recount with the present work plan.
Rudolph Singh

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