D2 posted:ronan posted:D2 posted:The current list is adequate.
"adequate" for what, sir?
you do understand that Guyana has less than 800,000 people, right?
this is not a 10,000,000 voters roll with plenty cushion against fraud
25,000, or even 10,000 illegal votes under these circumstances is a scandal that cannot be called "democracy"
Dead people cannot come to the precinct to vote. A bloated list as this represent the incompetence of GECOM. They are tasked to guarantee elections within 90 days. Running a elimination program with matching names from lists of the dead reported by the various collectors of such data should be a perfunctory activity. House to House check is designed to look for the living. If proper purging is on going the happenstance of meeting a home where a dead person is registered is minimal.
i have no time to waste running around in circles marking up what is essentially nonsense built on your contempt for and alienation from those currently sitting in Gov't
this is mostly about people who have migrated
James McAllister, cited at the top of the thread, already covered your shakeabatty
try to read
McAllister: "“There must be some sinister agenda by those clamoring for elections without house-to-house registration,” he began. “The 2012 Census recorded a population of 746,955. Of this, 39 per cent was less than 18. Using census figures from 1980, 1991, 2001, and 2012, I forecasted that the population in 2015 was approximately 745,600. Assuming that 39 per cent is below 18, then approximately 454,816 were over 18 and eligible to vote in 2015. Yet we had a votes list with 583,444 names. That is a whopping 128,600 plus dead or nonexistent persons.”
McAllister noted that this represents and overstating of the voting population on the recently used list by over 28 per cent. He added: “And this is assuming a 100 per cent registration of all eligible electors. If 90 per cent registration is assumed then the list was bloated by over 42 per cent. A list as flawed as this provided great opportunity for fraud and corruption.”
Presenting additional information to support the position, McAllister highlighted that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) had declared a 71.26 per cent voter turnout for the 2015 elections.
However, he noted that looking at the current census figures and assuming a 90 per cent registration rate, the actually voter turnout was 102 per cent which represents more voters than people.
He added that even if one were to assume a 100 per cent registration rate which his highly improbable, the voter turnout in 2015 would then be 91 per cent, still a highly improbable turnout.
Another example he gave was that a large number of polling places where the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) received the majority votes, the turnout is computed at more than 120 per cent.
“Even if we assume a 100 per cent, this scenario points to a high incidence of substitute voting. This is when someone impersonates an elector and votes in his or her place. It’s quite possible that the present voters list is bloated by as much as 35 per cent. Anyone suggesting going to elections with such a list has a sinister agenda. The PPP claim that such a list could be cleansed is just a plain joke. There must be house-to-house registration before elections in 2020,” McAllister concluded."