Totaram posted:ksazma posted:Totaram posted:It is not clear if they are talking about locations of polling stations. A large facility like a school could have several polling stations.
Everyone does not live nest door to the school.
If they want to vote then they will have to go to their polling station. Isn't that how it is done all over the world?
In Paradise, where I live we have early voting where we can walk into any early voting place and vote. It is only on elections day that we have to go to our designated precinct. But that is besides the point. Guyanese don't have as many facilities as we do and taking away a polling place which is close to where those people live will place an undue hardship on them. So while I am comfortable with eliminating private residences as polling places we will know when it is all said and done if GECOM was universal in that edict or if they were just selective. At the very least, GECOM could have installed a mobile unit in close proximity to the places they eliminated so that voters don't have to travel beyond their means to vote.