AFC describes number of electors as “phenomenal”

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AFC describes number of electors as “phenomenal”

Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton

Kaieteur News – With the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) stating that the revised list of electors stands at 757,715 as of June 15, 2015, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said that that number is “phenomenal” for a country with an unknown population.

Leader of the AFC Nigel Hughes told reporters at his party’s press conference on Friday noted that his party wrote to GECOM requesting a list of districts and sub-divisions which GECOM conducted prescribed investigations and cancelled registration of the deceased from the list of eligible voters from 2022 to present.

GECOM is yet to respond. “…I mentioned this because this week, we heard that the eligible voters… The number of eligible voters in the country exceeds 700,000 people. That is a phenomenal number for a country, but we don’t know how the official population is…we haven’t received the census,” he stressed.

The politician reasoned that for a country with roughly 780,000 to 800,000 persons having over 700,000 eligible voters will be problematic, hence the request was made almost a month ago to ascertain how many persons and where exactly GECOM conducted the exercises, to remove the deceased from the registered voters’ list.

“…we believe, yet again, GECOM is demonstrating its lack of capacity to be able to hold an election which is credible. We’d like to urge them not only to respond to our letters, but also to hold frequent public information engagements in which these issues were raised not only by the contestants, but by the press so that citizens can be addressed,” he urged.

Leader of the AFC, Nigel Hughes

On July 10, Kaieteur News reported that GECOM indicated that the revised list of voters stood at 757, 715 as of June 15, 2015 at a training session for media personnel.

The information was provided as the commission approved symbols for 19 political parties contesting the General and Regional Elections ahead of Nomination Day slated for Monday.

Kaieteur News understands that the list is yet to undergo the process by which GECOM shall make all the necessary removals from, and corrections to extract the official list of electors.

Recently, opposition-nominated GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander expressed concerns about chairperson, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, being missing in action as the Commission is still to determine a number of critical issues including the methodology for the removal of the names of unregistered dead persons from the Register of Registrants. He said GECOM continued that discussion at a previous meeting.

Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton at his party’s press conference on Friday told reporters that the voters’ list needs to be addressed.

“They do nothing about it… You would know for 5 years we have contended that the list is padded and that there was need for a clean voters’ list and biometrics, the government resisted it. In fact, I think one of the reasons that they called the elections earlier than they planned was that they believe pressure was building up for biometrics,” Norton said.

Norton said his party intends to pay keen attention to the elections while noting that they have already signalled to the government that rigging would not be accepted.

“There are going to be serious consequences for attempting to rig these elections. The PPP likes to accuse people of rigging while putting the rigging machinery in place. Let us not forget from the local government election. I heard Bharrat Jagdeo with another set of nonsense talking about we are afraid,” Norton added.

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