Home Letters Were the proffered fraudulent votes used by Mingo “valid votes”?
Dear Editor,
As Guyanese sit anxiously awaiting the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) decisions and the rulings Justice Adrian Saunders, President of the CCJ, we look forward to rulings that have all the necessary and detailed points to present a barrier against deliberate misinterpretations by the David Granger caretaker Government.
Lowenfield’s peculiar and contradictory actions invalidated 115,787 votes, which he conceived and calculated, fall within his self-inflated constitutional authority. The computations by Lowenfield knowingly and recklessly demonstrated bias by exercising authority that is not vested in him and beyond his scope of authority, throughout the 2020 electoral process. Lowenfield was always an alleged suspect aligned with the APNU/AFC rigging machine.
One will remember that it was Lowenfield in 2015 who said that impersonation “Just not possible” but he has now changed the narrative to a different song. During March 2, 2020 National and Regional Elections, these were the same safeguards which have been repeatedly pointed out to challenge belated claims by APNU/AFC that there was impersonation and other acts of fraud that were alleged.
These were Lowenfield’s own words in 2015: “For you to vote at a Polling Station you have to be listed to vote there. In that Polling Station, our Presiding Officer will have a list specific to that Polling Station. If you go to another Polling Station then your name will not be there.” Clear evidence that Lowenfield from the inception knew that the alleged anomalies submitted by Granger’s APNU/AFC were in fact – “big lies” but yet he used those anomalies to invalidate approximately 25 per cent of the ballots cast.
Every Guyanese must know by now that Mingo and Lowenfield were not acting alone, and we also know these individuals are not stupid. They are simply part of a rogue group, trying to steal an elections and disenfranchise over 233,336 People’s Progressive Party/Civic supporters’ votes, similar to what the PNC did multiple times during their governance, based on rigged election results, using any means necessary; in just as callous, crass and clumsy manner as Mr President Granger is attempting to do now,
Lowenfield has taken the meaning of words “valid votes” to new depths, he has shown that foolish acts are not constrained only to stupid people, with his pronouncement that only 344,508 were valid votes, instead of the approximately 460,000 valid votes as per “the Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount.”
Keith Lowenfield as a senior officer at GECOM has conducted himself in a manner that does not reflect decency and command the confidence of the Guyanese people, a manner that demonstrates no respect for the electorate, the Guyanese citizen nor the electoral structures and the institutions of law and the People Act that was meant to protect and safeguard the will of the people.
It was David Granger who tried twice to be sworn-in as President by proffered fraudulent votes projected by Region Four’s Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo. The question is, were the proffered fraudulent votes used by Mingo “valid votes”?
Editor, these were the same votes GECOM mastermind Keith Lowenfield wanted to use in his attempt to swear in David Granger for a second term. The “incomprehensible” computations by “self-promoted constitutional office holder”, Lowenfield, both officials have made inapplicable, any room for irrationality.
Mingo and Lowenfield should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their “wrongdoings “ It is over 16 weeks since Guyana’s General and Regional Elections have been held and the results cannot be declared. This is not a record to be proud of and if these elections have shown us anything, it is that Guyana badly needs reconciliation amongst its politicians and constitutional reform.
This has been highly controversial 2020 elections which have been challenged on several fronts and there needs to be a resolution for the good of the people of Guyana. The ongoing uncertainty has not been helpful and it has caused further divisions in our country. It is my humble belief that this will change after Dr Irfaan Ali is sworn-in as Guyana’s 9th Executive President.
He must make immediate provisions for constitutional democracy in every community across this great nation of ours, involving every Guyanese citizen, demonstrating goodwill and working on reconciliation amongst the political leaders and parties, showing support for constitutional reform since some of these issues that have led to the controversies in this election process is linked to the delay of the reform.
We are a country of great potential. Guyana can become the richest country in the hemisphere and potentially one of the richest countries in the world with a future of oil wealth that must benefit every Guyanese citizen. All grievances between our two main political parties must be immediately resolved if we are going to become a force in Caricom and the Southern Hemisphere.
Guyanese, we must be hopeful that the orders coming out of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on July 8, 2020, will be clear and precise, with no room for semantic reassignment and repositioning by the Granger rigging machine. Lowenfield and District four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo have been accused of trying in various ways to rig the General Elections for Granger and the APNU/AFC in the case of the CEO invalidating over 115,000 votes to arrive at a result different from the recounted votes which had indicated victory for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic.
Sincerely,
David Adams