Dear Editor,
After seeing what has unfolded during the present recount, Guyanese voters must continue to demand greater transparency during our recount process , during the last eight days Guyanese were abled to witness first hand instances from the national recount exercise showing Mingo inflating votes for APNU /AFC . A total of 20 boxes has been found so far with fraudulent declarations by Mingo. APNU-AFC the actual figure was increased by 1,536 votes while the PPP/C was decreased by 177 votes when compared to the results from the National Recount Exercise and Mingo’s declaration. We have seen a direct attempt to fraud and rig the process, Guyanese all went out on March 02 2020 and honestly voted overwhelmingly for the party of their choice to elect the next President of Guyana, the magnitude of wrongdoing allegations uncovered does not speak well for Gecom and our electoral system
During the recounting process party counting agents have been providing daily updates of discrepancies found at their respective work station. These discrepancies reported vary from name of dead persons used for voting or names of persons who have migrated, apparently there were boxes where the number of ballots in the boxes outnumber the names indicated on the list as voted ,there are also cases of persons who voted via affidavits are more than the number of affidavits provided to that polling station. It is ironic to me that most of these discrepancies were allegations made by APNU/AFC counting agents , without any evident to support their claim, what is more worrying ,it is also allege that more than 90 percent of Presiding Officers who were selected to presided at the polling station across this country were in some way affitcilated with the APNU/AFC party and or in which were actually valid votes .
My only concern with all of this, millions of tax payers dollars were spent on the training of RO’s and other Gecom casual staff that had facilitated these polling stations where those allegations were made ,with these revaluations ,and names being published, Is all our votes cast on March 02, 2020 truly remain private during and after these recounts?
Regardless of how we look at all this, the rights of the people must be respected and preserved, the integrity of the election must be preserved since only eligible voters were allowed to vote at March 02 2020 General and regional election and those votes must be protected from any alteration or exclusion.
News headlines on March 04 ,2020 all indicated that Elections-was-free-and-fair.
The question is why would the APNU- AFC openly trying to disrespect Gecom regular and part time staff ,it is obvious that the APNU-AFC are desperately trying to slow down the recount process by bringing up these allegations .which they have no evidence to support.
The APNU must desist from perpetuating these misrepresentations and making false accusations
At the rate the counting process is moving it will take more than 25 days to actually complete the recount unless Gecom, review the present procedure and improve the efficiency during the counting process. Currently it takes about 30 mins tops to get one box ready for counting. Gecom must establish a better way, these are modern times, less time should be spent on the scrutiny of election compliance reports and more emphasis on the recounting of the ballots themself. There are those in the APNU camp working to ensure all blame for the electoral fraud falls on David Granger, key to this the constant stream of frivolous objections being made during the recount process, copied of the observation are sent regularly to David Granger , these reports are accompanied by zealous ranting and accusations of the people’s progressive party rigging , a well-known dog whistle for Granger . Most of this is public information was revealed, the question is why this operation is being done, millions of dollars has been diverted from a certain rehabilitation works project. To fund activists during the recount period, however the money is not getting to those working hands the plan is to delay the recount as long as possible to ensure David Granger is the one left in the “Mud-Pit” A copy of the letter to the US Ambassador with David Granger’s blunt refusal to allow the Carter Center to return was to all members of the foreign services via email in the certainty that it would be leaked to the media. After this recount will be complete, with a victory for the people’s progressive party civic, a news narrative will be written by the PNCR to apportion blame for attempted rigging of elections and it has only one name on it.
Sincerely,
David Adams
