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Recounting deep down the Rabbit Hole

May 10, 2020 Letters

Dear Editor,

The ways that the recount can be detonated are innumerable, even the great French mathematician Blaise Pascal could not present us with a formula to prevent the recount process from being disruptive, incomputable, unreliable and voidable.
We are indeed living in Orwellian times, when we have to endure a witless and seemingly never-ending recount process, being conducted hellishly during the COVID-19 global pandemic, a world crisis that has caused record-breaking unemployment and economic hardships, along with further deterioration in the physical and mental health of Guyanese.
While common sense and the law approves use of the easily accessible and easy to tabulate Region 4 Statement of Polls (SOPs) – that will quickly allow us to exit this odious “Hotel California” – a hotel we can never leave by using the muddled recount process. The use of the Region 4 SOPs will allow us to declare the baked in election results known to everyone.
From the mid-1950s onwards, it had always been difficult, if not impossible for the Burnham-led faction of the PPP to win a free and fair election. With the passage of time and immigration from Guyana, the core support fragmentation started to trend for a third party in 2006; when The Alliance For Change showed that having a multiracial, multicultural and multiethnic leadership and political campaign, brought sufficient Guyanese from all demographics under their umbrella to change the status quo. The 2011 and 2015 elections further highlighted this multiracial shift in our electoral politics.
There is no doubt in my mind that we will have to close the book on the improprieties of the past and start anew. This is the basis to stop the destruction, the divide and the bubbling hatred that is plaguing our nation. A plague that is exponentially worse than COVID-19, relative to the development of Guyana.
Guyana has a colossal amount of resources. We can shrug off the extractions, allocations and distributions that have been usurped from the state coffers over the last several decades; and Guyanese will still have much more valuable resources than all the combined resources of the other member states of CARICOM.
The PNC is made up of many good people who want to see Guyana develop and thrive for all Guyanese and I say the same for the PPP. At this juncture of our history, allowing a democratic transition, without the interminable rabbit hole recount is much needed. Use the Region 4 SOPs and let us conclude the March 2, 2020 elections.
The Orwellian agents capable of visually detecting opposition members with COVID-19, even those who are asymptomatic, withholding public documents, preventing video monitoring are but a few of the hundreds of variables that prevent even Pascal like minds from creating a workable election recount solution.
American-British political philosopher Thomas Paine said: “It is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
God knows Guyanese have paid dearly over the last sixty years. Let us now have a fresh start, let us release the dynamic forces that exist within our multiracial, multicultural and multiethnic society; these forces certainly exist within the PPP and PNC. The time is now for Guyanese to enjoy inclusive and accelerated economic prosperity.

Nigel Hinds

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