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Forced to vote by proxy
Dear Editor,
Editor, this is a day I will never forget. I served in the Guyana Police Force at that time. I was stationed at Kitty Police Station and I lived with my parents at Seaforth Street, Campbellville. Policemen were actually forced to vote by proxy before the elections. To this, I refused because my polling station was at Campbellville Government School which was in my backyard.
On that fateful day, I was assigned to work at the said school alongside the returning officer and I cast my ballot on arrival. I stood close to the returning officer and could have viewed the voters list. I knew almost everyone on my street and I referred to most of my elders as uncle and auntie. I was surprised on several occasions when I saw persons came with proxy forms to vote for persons whom I knew. When the real persons showed up to vote, they were shocked to know that persons voted for them already.
My duty at the close of polls was to escort the returning officer with the ballot box in his car to Queen’s College where the votes were to be counted. This did not happen because at the intersection of Vlissengen Road and Thomas Road steel barriers were set up and senior GDF officers were manning that point. The returning officer stopped and I was ordered out of the car by an officer who said that they will take over. The returning officer was directed to go to the GDF headquarters where from my knowledge the ballot box was replaced with a rigged one.
Regards,
Kenneth Singh
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