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Mar 21, 2012 News
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says it has noted with serious concerns, the issues which were publicised by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), pertaining to the party’s examination of Statements of Poll (SoPs) in the Commission’s possession relative to the 2011 General and Regional Elections.
The statement comes several hours after APNU asserted that the coalition numbers on the Statements of Poll do not total to the votes attributed to each party in GECOM’s final count. According to APNU, given the discrepancies uncovered, “the final election results and the results gazetted by GECOM are incorrect.”
In this regard, GECOM yesterday said that it is essential for them to point out that, at the time of the Commission agreeing to make the SoPs available to APNU for scrutiny, this Party had given the undertaking to provide GECOM with the details of its findings. However, this has not happened.
Because of the serious nature of the matter, GECOM yesterday said that all of the concerns raised by APNU will be considered extensively at the level of the Commission and its Secretariat in a timely manner. Immediately thereafter, GECOM will make a total and comprehensive response addressing all of the concerns, raised by APNU.
GECOM insisted that APNU should also in the meantime, make the findings available to the Commission.
APNU said that the Deputy Returning Officers prepared several SoPs that were unsigned by Presiding Officers or polling agents following the close of polls on November 28th.
“…these SOPs were then scanned and distributed to the contesting parties via compact disc with the stated communiqué that the Statements of Poll were copies of originals…clearly false.”
APNU contends that the absence of a defined GECOM policy on the use of SoPs, allows for the use of copies instead of originals in the final count. “As a result, GECOM does not have in storage, original Statements of Poll for multiple polling stations.”
The coalition of parties also says that GECOM never provided a final list of polling stations that matched the polling stations used on Elections Day to the political parties and stakeholders.
“GECOM is unable to provide a final list of the private residences used as polling stations”, said APNU.
APNU is also contending that illegible copies were used by GECOM in tabulating and computing the SOPs, ultimately resulting in flawed results being published, coupled with the fact that the SOPs were ultimately designed to make them susceptible to fraud and manipulation.
The coalition of parties also pointed to what it calls forged signatures on several SOPs, particularly in Regions Three and Four, which it stressed, represented the locations with the largest bloc of the electorate.
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