2020 elections fraud trial: Myers refused to answer questions about involvement in Reg 4 tabulation data

…as Police interview video shows former IT manager speaking of instructions received from DCEO

Former Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers chose to remain silent and refused to answer any questions put before her when the Police interviewed her back in 2020 about the extent of her involvement in the tabulation of the Region Four votes for the 2020 General and Regional Elections (GRE), where the voting results were tampered with.
This is according to a recording played to the court on Friday, after proceedings in the trial of alleged electoral fraud had continued on Thursday morning before Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrate Court.

The video of Myers’s interrogation was played as part of the testimony of Police Corporal Sheldon Harvey, a crime scene examiner and videographer, who recorded the video of the Police questioning of Myers on October 7, 2020.

In the video, Myers can be seen being asked various questions about her functions as the Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), as well as her actions between March 4 and 12, 2020, following the March 2 elections.
“I exercise my right to remain silent,” was Myers’s only response to the questions being asked.
Myers can be seen being interrogated by Head of Major Crimes Unit Senior Superintendent Mitchell Caesar and another officer. Myers could be seen being questioned in the presence of her attorney, Nigel Hughes.
Myers was particularly asked about directions and instructions she gave to GECOM staff and others, as well as to what extent she was involved in the handling of the elections data. She was also asked about the Statements of Poll (SoPs) from which the election results from the various polling stations were being used to tabulate the overall results for the region. Through it all Myers refused to answer the questions.

IT manager interview
However, during Myers’ interrogation, the Police also brought in Anneal Giddings, who at the time served as GECOM Information Technology (IT) Manager.
In the recording, Giddings spoke about his interactions with and instructions he received from Myers on March 4–5, 2020.
Giddings recalled being requested by Myers that he hand over a flash drive with the tabulation data for Region Four.
“She instructed that the flash drive be delivered to her, and I complied, bearing in mind that would be my only copy of the backup,” Giddings is heard saying.
Giddings also recalled that following a bomb scare threat at the Ashmin’s Building where the Region Four tabulation was being done, he made attempts to safeguard election materials, including SoPs and a server which he removed from the facility. This is notwithstanding Myers instructing him to leave the server in the building.
“Mrs Myers entered the tabulation centre and instructed that I do not remove it [the server]. I disobeyed that instruction and placed the server in my car. Half an hour later, she instructed me to return the server to the building. However, [Myers] said since the server was taken out of the building, they would have to terminate the tabulation exercise because the data could have been compromised,” Giddings recounted.
The court was also scheduled to hear recordings of Police interrogations conducted with former GECOM Region Four Returning Officer Claremont Mingo and former GECOM staff member Sheffern February; however, these were objected to by Hughes on the grounds that the suspects were interrogated without the presence of their lawyers despite requesting such. The admissibility of these recordings will be determined following a voir dire hearing.
Myers, Mingo and February are among nine individuals currently facing 19 charges of conspiracy to commit electoral fraud for the events that occurred following the March 2, 2020, GRE.
Other persons charged include former GECOM Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield; former GECOM employees Enrique Livan, Michelle Miller and Denise Babb-Cummings; former A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Minister, Volda Lawrence; and APNU+AFC Scrutineer, Carol Smith-Joseph.
They are accused of tampering with the March 2 election results for Region Four in an attempt to inflate the votes for the APNU+AFC party and decrease the votes for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), which had actually won the elections.
With no other witnesses for the day aside from Cpl Harvey, the case was adjourned and will continue on Monday at 09:30h.