Honouring ballots or individual sanctions against fraudsters and their enablers

Dear Editor,
The United States of America’s Secretary of State, Michael Richard Pompeo needs to immediately implement the consequential sanctions against the individuals that have openly flouted and breached the laws of Guyana to actively undermine the democratic process, in order to prevent the winner of Guyana’s General and Regional Elections, which were held on March 2, 2020, from leading the Government of Guyana.
What could Mike Pompeo be waiting on before implementing individual sanctions against the election fraudsters and their enablers:
1. Containers with ballots to vanish.
2. The illegal swearing-in of David Granger as President.
3. Chaos and violence across Guyana.
4. Court rulings and orders that will be appealed, ignored or borders on unenforceability, due to ambiguous and loose language.
5. An election recount of what has already been counted; with the initial count and tally showing a clear winner.
6. The passing of some unknown timeline, and prior to that insufferable timeline being reached, allow an illegal and ignoble regime to govern and trample on the rights of Guyanese, the laws of Guyana and promote an environment of division and deception.
7. Use of the court system for sham charges and political persecution.
8. Missing ballots and/or missing Statements of Poll.
The United States must match sanction action to their talk. International organisations such as the Organisation of American States, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Union, Caricom, Carter Center and several Guyanese organisations and individuals have spoken out against the fraudulent declarations by the Guyana Elections Commission as it relates to the Region Four, Demerara-Mahaica Statements of Poll adding and tabulation process. Region Four accounts for approximately 45 per cent of votes cast in Guyana’s March 2, 2020 elections.
The current delay and denial tactics of APNU/AFC leaders and their myrmidons is nothing but the continuing violations of Guyana’s laws and Constitution; which commenced after the successful December 18, 2018 no-confidence vote that by law required General and Regional Elections to be held by March 21, 2019.
Finally, we have had the legally overdue elections on March 2, 2020, the APNU/AFC Administration is hell-bent on putting up barriers to a democratic transition, by using their agents in GECOM to fabricate and falsify Statements of Poll or using the legal system to subvert the laws governing the election process.
Why wait for the situation to become even worse, resulting in the loss of life and limb and destruction of property! The United States has the power and can take action now, to put an end to this unfolding tragedy.
Lest there be any doubt, I voted for Granger in 2015 and Trump in 2016. The sequence of events since my votes have not for a moment caused me to lose faith in the need for the periodic renewal of democracy to honour the will of the people, which is best demonstrated by adherence to the prevailing democratic system of laws and statutes.
The United States of America must act now to save our embryonic democracy, to ensure we have a legal Government, prevent social disorder and violent chaos in Guyana!
Those who imply that having a dictatorship is better than having sanctions imposed on individuals who were complicit in the fraudulent March 2, 2020 Elections and if necessary on Guyana; should think of the global call for sanctions against South Africa apartheid system in the 1980s and ask yourself if sanctions are worse than an apartheid system if the sanctions are being used to dismantle a dictatorship.

Sincerely,
Nigel Hinds