…COVID 19 to rig
Your Eyewitness didn’t have to do any kinda analysis when he predicted yesterday that Claudette Singh’s decision to pass the buck on the elections recount to Nagamootoo was just another delaying ploy. He just had to use his nose: the decision stank to high heavens. Why would she want to ask Nagamootoo what work hours she had to mandate for the count?? Didn’t she read the regulations to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic issued by the government?? Or did Lowenfield interpret them for her??
Once you separate the workers by the minimum distance and have them wear masks and gloves, there’s no reason they couldn’t work the two shifts that had been requested. “Essential services” are exempted from the 6pm curfew. Isn’t the count an “essential service” and therefore exempt? Well, Claudette had to know what Nagamootoo’s answer would be: a resounding “No!!”
After all, since early in the day, Nagamootoo had declared, “No recount!”. He’s been arguing that GECOM ought to declare the elections results from the Mingoed count submitted by Lowenfield. The PPP and other parties who witnessed the fraud right in front of their eyes should go the way of an elections petition to the courts. That this process would take years, of course, is just incidental!!
So not surprisingly, Nagamootoo ruled that if the counting personnel were to work after 6pm, they would be at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 than those doing the same tasks under the same safety conditions, during the day!! Maybe he agrees with those who claim sunlight kills the virus? But couldn’t be that – even during the day, the count is indoors!!
But that wasn’t the only curve Nagamootoo threw – which was passed on to Claudette and the rest of the nation via his weekly Chronic column. He insisted that any oversees Observers would have to undergo a quarantine of 14 days – even if they’ve been tested and certified by their home country as COVID free!! Other countries’ testing, of course, aren’t up to the standards we’ve established under the direction of Nagamootoo’s Task Force!!
In one fell swoop, Nagamootoo thinks he’s pushed back the recount by another two months at least. But can one hope that Nagamootoo’s latter intervention was gratuitous since Claudette would’ve followed the recommendations of the Opposition parties for the validation by Observers of the counting process to be done remotely. If court cases, including the presentation of evidence, can now be done remotely, why not a recount of ballot papers??
But we know this is only another battle in the war of attrition to delay the count.
But the PNC should remember that time longer than twine!!
…their crime
If the PNC had an iota of concern for even their supporters – never mind the country – they’d drop this charade and (at worse) re-tabulate the SOPs from the ten regions to have the people’s choice of their government take over. (At best they’d just complete the Reg 4 tabulation.) Behind all their arguments – in the courts and out – why don’t the PNC show their SOPs? If they won, they’d be no argument.
The fact that they won’t do this simple act proves, in the mind of your humble Eyewitness, that the wankers have lost but don’t want to admit it.
Each of these SOPs were counter-signed by one of their representatives. If they suspect that the PPP stuffed some boxes in their strongholds where they mightn’t have had representatives – as some of their followers are NOW asserting – why didn’t they ask for those boxes to be recounted??
Heck, to save the country all this High Anxiety why not request this now?
For sure the Opposition parties would agree rather than a total recount!!
…mutual backscratching
Granger’s under attack even from within the PNC’s circled wagons. So here comes Hamilton Green to the rescue. Insists Granger’s a “statesman”.
Sure didn’t he award Green an OR and a monthly pension of $2 million smackeroos?
