@Former Member posted:History repeating itself with same old PNC trickery. On Election Day 1973 Gilbakka turned up at Uitvlugt Scots School to vote. He travelled from Georgetown where he was working and renting a room.
An official at the desk named Cheryl Sampson told Gilbakka he voted already. She pointed to a pencil line across Gilbakka's name on the voters list. Gilbakka denied voting already. She said Gilbakka voted overseas. Gilbakka said he was residing in Georgetown and never went overseas. The Presiding Officer, an old gentleman, stood nearby. Gilbakka put his case to the old man who instructed Cheryl Sampson to let Gilbakka vote.
The same Cheryl Sampson lived only a stone's throw from my father's home. She could easily have asked my parents or sisters where I was living.
Of note, Cheryl Sampson later became a PNC parliamentarian and Head of the PNC women's arm WRSM after Viola Burnham died.
This should be the 4th time I am mentioning in this Forum how the PNC nearly disenfranchised me. They are still entrenched in their old dirty ways. They want to nullify PPP/C votes by alleging that those voters were living overseas on March 2. In reality many folks these days are relocating from their traditional villages to other parts of Guyana. THEIR VOTES MUST BE COUNTED.
I accompanied my father to the poll on that day and witnessed the official telling my father that he had already voted by proxy. My father then inquired about my grandfather who had died the previous year and when it was checked, my dead grandfather also voted.
I also remember us talking to a family friend at the polling station who lost his life that night while transporting ballot boxes in his employers vehicle.
There was a wonderful article that was posted here a few years ago by Sunil describing the incident.