Lowenfield toppled Burnham from the PNCR’s rigging vortex

Dear Editor,
The observation report submitted by GECOM CEO Keith Lowenfield demonstrates how he has toppled LFS Burnham from the inner core of the PNCR rigging vortex.
Lowenfield has committed “the mother” of all rigging. What GECOM’s Clairmont Mingo had failed to deliver, Lowenfield is desperately trying to fulfill for his sponsors at Congress Place.
Whenever one spoke of elections-rigging within the Caribbean region prior to 2020, the PNCR party popped up, as well as two of its most celebrated architects: former Presidents Mr LFS Burnham and Mr Desmond Hoyte.
But if ever one thought that Burnham and Hoyte were adept at their craft, they must now know that PNCR’s and GECOM’s Keith Lowenfield and Clairmont Mingo have eclipsed their feat. They have staged two separate electoral coups d’etat of the March 2, 2020 elections in plain daylight and in the full view of the world, and hope that they would get away with it.
On March 13, 2020, Mingo made his second notorious declaration of Region 4 votes, and Lowenfield had no hesitation in using those fictitious Region 4 figures to declare the PNCR/APNU coalition as the victor of the 2020 elections. The Elections Commission held that declaration in abeyance.
On March 14, 2020, Granger asked Caricom to send a team to validate the recount process. That activity once again revealed the duplicity of Granger, when one of his own candidates filed an injunction to block the recount that he had requested. The court subsequently allowed the recount to proceed.
While the PNCR failed in their bid to steal the elections on March 13, 2020, they refused to give up. Thus, three months later, on the same date, June 13, 2020, they once again got GECOM CEO Lowenfield to perform one of the greatest electoral frauds in the history of Guyana and the Caribbean.
It was on June 13th forty years ago that the PNCR destroyed a shining symbol of democracy, Dr Walter Rodney. The PNCR have signalled that they are about to inflict a similar blow on democracy.
When one thought that Mingo was despicable, his boss, Lowenfield, is probably worse; as he proceeded to disenfranchise over 275,000 valid voters. Lowenfield scorned the notion that every vote counts. He produced a total countrywide valid vote count of 125,010 for the PNCR coalition and 56,627 for the PPPC. The count for the combined smaller parties was 3,363.
He and his sponsors hope that his voodoo mathematics would scare the PPPC and other political parties into submission and acceptance of the need for fresh elections.
The PPPC received 233,336 valid votes, the PNCR coalition got 217,920, while the smaller parties got a combined total of 9,000 votes. These are the real figures (based on SORs), and not those doctored by Lowenfield. The Commission has to make its declaration on these figures.
Many critics have said it, and I repeat it here: The PNCR has never won free and fair elections in Guyana, and will never so do in the near future because of its bullyism, self-serving run-away corruption, ineptitude, fiscal recklessness, and visionlessness.
Would Guyana, which has remarkably witnessed two daring attempts at electoral fraud in 3 months, create a precedent for electoral rigging in other Caricom and Commonwealth countries? If this materialises, it’s possible that, in the future, any political party that loses an election could choose to walk on the same path.
Recognising the danger of this PNCR position, Caricom Ambassador to OAS, Noel Lynch, says that Caricom cannot afford to have an anti-democratic state in the community. And incoming Caricom Head, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon Ralph Gonsalves, was more forceful when he said the government must be declared on the basis of the recount, and if there are alleged irregularities, these could be raised via an election petition.
The Head of the Commonwealth Observation Mission, Former Barbados Prime Minister Hon Owen Arthur, says the recount figures are “incontrovertible,” and “must be the basis for a declaration of the winner of the March 2, general and regional elections.” (NewsRoom: 6/23/20).
Lowenfield, Mingo, and Myers, along with elements of the PNCR cabal, have succeeded in crushing the moral and social fabric of Guyanese society. Their imbedded culture of lies, deception, and venality continues to suck others into this cesspool. The wounds that they are inflicting upon the nation will take decades to repair.
Finally, the PPPC won the 2020 elections, and this was established in two separate occasions (with SOPs and SORs). The time has come to install Dr Irfaan Ali as the new President and the PPPC as the new government. And GECOM Chair, Justice Claudette Singh, can make this happen.
Guyanese need to breathe some fresh air again; they have been suffocating for too long.

Sincerely
Dr Tara Singh