…Barima-Waini District on track for completion today
The national elections recount exercise underway at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) appears about ready today to complete recounting the votes cast in Region One (Barima-Waini), having completed 15 more ballot boxes on Wednesday for that region.
Tabulation of Statements of Recount as of Wednesday
With 11 boxes more to complete the Region, the workstation over the past eight days completed recounting the votes cast in 88 ballot boxes, at an average of about nine boxes each day.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Wednesday – Day Eight of the national recount exercise – completed 367 overall of the total 2339 ballot boxes or about 15 per cent.
On Wednesday, a total of 56 ballot boxes were recounted as GECOM commenced its second week.
The Commission will begin today’s activities with a total of 1972 more ballot boxes across the regions.
As it relates to the count for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), GECOM, at the end of Wednesday, managed to bring the number of boxes addressed for that district to 78 of the total 135.
Report of the ballot boxes counted
This would mean that about 56 per cent of the votes cast in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region of the country has since been recounted.
A total of 11 ballot boxes were scrutinised for the Region on Wednesday, with 57 more to be completed.
Of the total 355 ballot boxes for Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), GECOM has completed 100 boxes – about 28 per cent of the total votes.
The counting station completed 15 ballot boxes on Wednesday, with 255 more to go.
As it relates to the Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) votes, the Commission has since only been able to complete recounting about 11 per cent of the 879 ballot boxes for the electoral district.
The counting stations recounting the votes for Region Four completed 15 ballot boxes on Wednesday, bringing the total recounted for the region thus far to 96 boxes. This would leave 783 more boxes to be recounted during the exercise for this region.
The Commission is still to commence recounting votes for Regions Five and Six, since these would begin sequentially on the completion of the first region – Region One.
