…or misdirection?
Yesterday, GECOM was supposed to pronounce on the model it’ll use for recounting the votes cast in the elections. There were three proposals: the 156-day Lowenfield abomination, which earned the ire of everyone excepting the PNC hardliners; the 10-day PPP proposal that addressed all the legalities and technicalities that had been raised by the PNC to date; and, lastly, the 12-day plan from 8 of the 9 newbie parties, prepared by the very professional Guyana Budget and Policy Institute.
Based on the Solomonic precedent the GECOM Chair set on the H2H registration exercise – when she’d ruled that even though curtailed, the partial data would be integrated into the NRR, just to give something to “both sides” – your Eyewitness thought this time she would’ve added 156 to 12 and divided by 2 to arrive at 84 days for the recount!! After all, to this Chair, there doesn’t seem to be any standard of justice, save expedience in trying to please everybody – never mind the pertinent facts. It’s like giving equal weight to a rapist and his victim.
And what are those pertinent facts? The PNC fifth columnists in the Secretariat have subverted the count in every which way, such that the chief cook and bottle washer, Mingo, still stands guilty of contempt of court for refusing to use the Reg 4 SOPs as instructed to deliver a “transparent” result. This shilly-shallying has been compounded by agents of the PNC rushing to the courts – represented by the PNC lawyers – to further delay the count. We’re now way past the 40 days and forty nights it took for the Resurrection and the Ascension of Jesus Christ, but still no results!
Time, therefore, is of the essence in getting this count finished. After all, there’s the most serious pandemic to hit the planet in a century confronting us, and this demands legitimate leadership to rally our people to fight it off. We were told that, rather than make a decision, the Chair moved that the Commission check out the Convention, which has been unanimously agreed to as the site of the counting. Now, let’s be serious. Do we really need a sightseeing tour to presumably determine how many counting stations can be accommodated? This is the 21st century. Not only could the architectural plans have been used, but the Commission could’ve been given a virtual tour YESTERDAY!! Jeez, in these lockdown days, we can now have virtual tours of the Louvre! And we know what’ll happen today, won’t we?
They’ll have to measure off and draw circles on the floor to ensure social distancing is maintained!
But why worry?? More delay is the point, isn’t it??
…on the SoPs
Looks like the WPA has decided to drop the façade of even-handedness – which was quite desultory to begin with, in any case – so’s to wage an all-out attack on the PPP for doing what? Agreeing with Caretaker Granger that there ought to be a count of all the votes in all ten regions!! Never mind that the PPP from the onset only demanded that THE 391 SOPs in Reg 4 that were not Mingoed be re-tabulated!!
David Hinds is quoted in the Chronic as questioning how could folks know that the PPP’s SOPs were accurate. Just like Volda’s purse carrier – vying for the PNC radical label who asked, “How can the PPP claim to have the correct SOPs when they don’t have official SOPs from GECOM?” Well, duh!! Isn’t that the answer?? Just have GECOM produce its SOPs and call the PPPs alleged bluff!!
We can ignore that the PNC hasn’t shown their SOPs to anyone, claiming they’re saving them for the “elections petition”!!
Do these fellas realise how stupid they sound??
…on COVID in Linden
So, we have another COVID-19 positive from Linden. We’re now told she’d been in contact with the first victim; had presented symptoms but was told to self-isolate.
But how about the others who also visited the first victim? Are they being allowed to infect the entire community?
