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Preliminary list of electors published

February 10, 2015 1:02 pm Category: BusinessLocal News A+ / A-

By Jomo Paul

[www.inewsguyana.com– The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has published the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) and persons are being urged to check the list to ensure that they are registered to vote at the May 11 polls.

Aside from being available online, the list is also available in hard copy in communities across the country for persons to peruse and ensure that they are listed.

The PLE will be available for scrutiny for the next 21 days after which it is expected that the Official List of Electors (OLE) would be released.

During this period persons can conduct claims and objections at publicized GECOM registration offices across the country.

Last week, GECOM said mobile units will be dispatched throughout the interior locations and a number of temporary offices will also be established in all divisions and sub-divisions during the claims and objections period.

The Commission says this upcoming period is an, “essential one for as the Commission sanitizes the Preliminary List of Electors.”

The Claims period will allow eligible electors who meet the specific requirements to gain entry onto the Primary list of Electors, (PLE) securing them their voting rights.

Anyone who will be 18 years or older by April 30, 2015 – who is not registered will be allowed to do so during this period.

This period also provides a window of opportunity to persons already registered who are desirous of having changes and/or have corrections made to their registration information currently entered on the Preliminary Voters List.

Electors already registered can request a transfer if they have moved from one sub division to another, or from one registration area to another.

“During the objections phase, an elector may visit the appropriate registration office in their sub-division or registration area to object to an entry in the Preliminary List of Electors.”

The PLE is available in the link below:

http://www.gecom.org.gy/PLE2015.html

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Yall count dem boxes where a certain GNI banna has been loitering around? I aint callin name but he said that he knows the results aready and dem PPP winning by 50+ . A lil hint, he got initials D an a G..

cain

Now the hard work starts. Besides the voters/electors themselves, activists and volunteers from the political parties will be examining the PLE with the proverbial magnifying glass to ensure that there are no dead people and also to make sure that eligible voters are not left out. Real legwork, door to door.

FM
Originally Posted by Mitwah:

Councie, what the going price for a voter?

AFC is so mean, they have no confidence in standard deviation and as such their median number is between themselves and PNC with a mode of 3 percent.

FM
Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:

Councie, what the going price for a voter?

AFC is so mean, they have no confidence in standard deviation and as such their median number is between themselves and PNC with a mode of 3 percent.

Do you know why PNC and AFC voters don't show up on polling day? The AFC cannot afford to go into the PPP/C strong hold and pay PPP supporters to stay away from the polls.

Mitwah
Originally Posted by KishanB:

HOW many polling Agents the APNU + AFC have in place?

 

Not enough to cover almost 2,400 poll sites.

 

And I wouldn't be surprised if NDC Councillors for the PPP and other PPP local activists are once again gonna double as the official GECOM staff for poll sites up and down the country.

 

You cannot have a free and fair election where the local GECOM officials are also the local PPP party elite.

 

At the very least, GECOM local village officials should not be dispatched to oversee the election in their own villages and neighborhoods.

 

We have a similar situation in New York where the incumbent party uses the practice of hiring party loyalists as rank and file Elections Commission workers who actually administer the poll in their local neighborhood. These party workers doubling as low level Elections Commission workers are then charged with each bringing a certain amount of voters to vote the "right way" thereby guaranteeing that only candidates backed by the party bosses win.

 

Now in Guyana where the laws are much more lax and incumbent parties far more brazen, there's no end of coercion that can go on short of full on ballot box stuffing.

 

It only takes just a little effort to destroy a democratic election without resorting to outright ballot box stuffing.

FM
Last edited by Former Member
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:
Originally Posted by KishanB:

HOW many polling Agents the APNU + AFC have in place?

 

Not enough to cover almost 2,400 poll sites.

 

And I wouldn't be surprised if NDC Councillors for the PPP and other PPP local activists are once again gonna double as the official GECOM staff for poll sites up and down the country.

 

 

It only takes just a little effort to destroy a democratic election without resorting to outright ballot box stuffing.

APNU AFC are well aware that the PPP plans to rig and they know exactly where the rigging will take place.  So I do not expect to hear any complaints from them about rigging as they will have to have THEIR OWN personnel located in PPP strongholds and in the interior to prevent irregularities. I assume that APNU can handle the situation in PNC strongholds.

FM

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