The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) + Alliance for Change (AFC) coalition is rejecting the People Progressive Party Civic’s call for a recount of the ballots in regions/districts 1, 2 and 8. 

Sometime Tuesday night the People's Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) requested a recount of ballots “in areas where we had reports of a lot of (votes) being rejected for spurious reasons.”

Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield has shared that the PPP/C wants sixteen (16) boxes in Region One, nine hundred and eighty nine (989) in Region Two and eight (8) in Region Eight to be recounted.

In the case of Region Eight, four of the boxes are in Mahdia and the remainder is in the North Pakaraimas. For Region Two, the PPP wants a recount of boxes up and down the Pomeroon River and from Charity to Good Hope on the Essequibo Coast.

Raphael Trotman, however, says that the coalition is rejecting the request on legal and other reason. He argued that the Representation of the People Act 1964 dictates that after statements of polls are posted there is a 12 hour window within which calls for recounts must be made. “The law says that you have twelve hours after that to contest or challenge the results. Or call for a recount. They failed to do that. Why can’t we stick with the law?” Trotman asks. 

As statements of polls were posted Tuesday evening the 12 hours window would have already passed.

Trotman was unable to cite the exact section which speaks to this deadline however, and no such provision was found when checks were made by Demerara Waves. 

The coalition is further arguing that for the PPP/C to now call for a recount of votes, after having declared their confidence in a comfortable victory is strange. “Was he lying to the nation yesterday… yesterday afternoon (President Donald) Ramotar said they were in a commanding lead. No party that is in a lead calls for a recount,” Trotman rationalised.

He added that the PPP/C was furnished with the same information provided to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as well as the coalition. Trotman believes that the call may be an attempt by the PPP/C to “to delay the inevitable,” and maybe also “to do something mysterious.”

Ultimately though, it is up to GECOM, specifically its CEO, to decide whether a call for a recount will be entertained. 
Section 93 of the Representation of the People Act says “a candidate appointed under Section 91 or an election agent may, when the counting or recounting of the votes cast in any ballot box is completed in conformity with Section 92 (1) (e) may request the Chief Elections Officer to have the votes recounted or again recounted; but the Chief Elections Officer may refuse such request if in his opinion it is unreasonable.”

Lowenfield has already said that the recounts are expected to begin on Wednesday and continue until Thursday or Friday before an official declaration of the winner of the May 11, 2015 general elections is known.

However, when asked Wednesday morning if he, in accordance with Section 93, perceives the request of the PPP/C to be reasonable he indicated that he was yet o fully consider Section 93. In fact, he said that GECOM’s lawyers were now considering Section 93, and that he would make a comment on his findings following such a consideration. 

Lowenfield further said that the PPP/C has not provided reasons for their request for a recount beyond citing Section 24 (1) – (5) of the Representation of the Peoples Act.

has anyone noticed Rohee is nowhere to be found? someone said he was seen fleeing to the Brazil border true?

Yes, go find him

???????????

Mind explaining what "Polls" here mean? Polls that ketch-a-fiah; Polls that got wet; Polls that got latrine? Polls that allow El dorado rum?

What the ass? Polls that have disputed Statement of Polls? Polls that returned that number of Statements of Poll?

Whah de rass?

Whah dis mean?

Whah is de point?

De thiefing PPP lost. As Riff puts it so lyrically - get over it. You along with the other idiots here predicted a PPP victory. Y'all don't knowwhy coolie people FED UP. Y'all cyant understand that coolie people don't feel threatened by Black people. Ya'll live in North Amrican and carry within y'all busoms a 1964 mentality.

Whah POLLS are these? The ones you and Nehru gon shove up y'all batty at Liberty Bar this afternoon?

I'm fed up of the unenlightened thinking like Shaits - APNU can't do nuthin' fuh coolies. When you start with that premise y'all look like octegenarians, and antiquities. Gwan suh!!!

end of rant.....hehehe

What's your point?

There is this movie where Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown turns to his aide de camp who insists on fighting the Americans further in the hope of creating victory from certain defeat and says:

"YOU DREAM SIR. YOU DREAM"

Fat Rima RouPaul in tow?....someone said Africo and Urling got their knapsack and is on the hike out as well!!!!

Kari,

Today is my domesticated day.

Tomorrow after 6:0o0 PM

Friday after 8:00 PM

your call

PS

For the Morons

This is the summary from GECOM 12 PM News Conference.

Kari were you a moron 

when you put yourself

on the firing line and in harms way 

at the Rumshop to save salty Batty?

Vishnu forget when you

removed the Buckta from his mouth

and help him cover up his swinge balls

that Baldeo was playing with.

We know Shyte would have put up a Fight......

but Salty just bend over

Just like he is doing now....AGAIN.

Jalil, behave yourself. Vishnu is very bereaved at the moment due to PPP's loss at the polls and then the loss of his maamoo. Excuse his rage.

Guyana's electoral units are designated Regions for the 10 politically-administered Regions.

What the hell is "District"?

lol  

Little bit more complex than that Kari.  The PPP won in the usual places.  The issue was that their margin of victory in Berbice was much smaller than usual, and there was a massive Gtown turn out, and not just blacks.  The PPP was stomped there.

The PPP won the larger share Indian votes, and I am sure that each person can explain why they voted this way. 

It is true however that a large % of Indians did flee the PPP Pharaoh.

What is good is that a message based purely on race can no longer win elections in Guyana, even if it might still galvanize substantial numbers.  I am sure that the PNC has also made note of this for next time.

Plus these refer. not to boxes counted, but to those SoPs which have been also verified.  Only a small number of SoPs are being sent back, so I really do not know why the PPP is wasting time.

It is over and the focus needs to switch to the transition, and monitoring the damage that the PPP is no doubt doing as it seeks to cover its corrupt tracks.

I believe this is all stalling tactics. Problem with trying to fight a military man is he knows his logistics.  Those who think that they can getaway are being monitored.  I suspect some will soon receive a knock on the door with a demand to return gov't property.

With Chris Ram on board there will be extensive forensic audits performed, and any discrepancies being created, as the PPP destroys files and computers, will be uncovered. 

bai me uncle ketch him an  tomorrow he will have him pulling his donkey cart