Mingo’s fraud fully exposed − time for criminal charges

Dear Editor,
As the recount takes its painful journey towards a final count, GECOM everyday tries to impose more illegal actions. Now they want to take away people’s phones. These people are morbidly afraid of the truth. They also want to introduce sign language for the radio audience. They have no shame. But madness is part of the process, the rigging cabal will use every illegal or stupid delaying tactic. The truth is the numbers will prove two things – first, the PPP won and, second, somebody committed fraud. With just about 5 per cent of the boxes counted, both these truths have become evident, plain as day.
The recount is crawling along, slower than a snail’s pace, with a total of 157 boxes counted out of the total of 2339 boxes, after four days. Downtime has accounted for almost 50 per cent of the total time allotted for the four days when one takes into consideration late starts, early closures, breaks for lunch and other things. Even with the small number of boxes already counted, the original Statements of Poll (SoPs) have been totally validated by the recount, with the Statements of Recount (SoRs) 100 per cent agreeing with the SoPs.
The table below highlights the recount results for APNU/AFC from twelve (12) Region Four boxes. This is the region where the Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, abandoned the SoPs for tabulation purposes and introduced a mysterious, bogus spreadsheet which he used to declare rigged results for Region Four, dramatically inflating the votes for APNU/AFC and reducing the PPP’s votes. Mingo inflated APNU/AFC’s total from about 114,000 to 136,000 votes, increasing APNU/AFC’s total by more than 22,000 votes. Simultaneously, Mingo reduced the PPP’s votes from 81,000 to 77,000 votes.
The table below shows 12 boxes so far that were fraudulently changed by Mingo, with total complicity from the GECOM Secretariat. In each of these 12 boxes, Mingo inflated APNU/AFC’s votes by between 25 to 109 votes, increasing APNU/AFC’s total by 913 votes or by 56 per cent.
As more boxes are counted, the exposure of the fraud will intensify. In three of these 12 boxes, Mingo also introduced a reduction of the PPP votes, reducing the PPP’s votes by 57. By doing this (inflating APNU/AFC’s votes and reducing the PPP’s votes) for hundreds of boxes in Region Four, Mingo was able to increase the actual APNU/AFC votes by more than 22,000 and reduce the PPP’s votes by more than 3000 votes.
The problem is he did it in plain sight, while being live-streamed, in front of local and international observers, the diplomatic corps, with the presence of three former Prime Ministers from Barbados, Jamaica and Senegal. He got caught, he had collaborators at the highest level of the GECOM Secretariat and in the leadership of APNU/AFC. Volda Lawrence had the temerity to sign the declaration.
But the PPP was present with its copies of SoPs prepared by GECOM and distributed to all the parties’ representatives that were present for the counting on March 2. The local and international observers and the media also had copies of most of the SoPs from Region Four since many of them took pictures of the SoPs that Presiding Officers posted up that evening.
The GECOM Secretariat and APNU/AFC have treated the SoPs as highly classified State secrets. But these are public documents. However, having tried to alter the SoPs, GECOM cannot produce them because they will reveal the fraud as deliberate. Nonetheless, the recount they desperately tried to stop and are now trying to frustrate is fully revealing the fraud.
In any other country, there is already enough incontrovertible evidence to criminally charge Mingo and his collaborators. The recount will continue to reveal the extent of the fraud. We have 12 boxes from among only 40 boxes from Region Four counted so far already proving Mingo fraud. There are many dozens more boxes from the total of 879 Region Four boxes that will expose the extensive fraud that was committed, a fraud designed to thief the election, a fraud designed as an electoral coup d’état. Mingo did not do it alone. Unless we hold the responsible people accountable this time, elections in Guyana will continue to be opportunities for fraud.

Sincerely,
Dr Leslie Ramsammy