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Feb 06, 2014 News
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is backing moves to introduce an automatic vote counting system for elections.
According to the business body, it met with the Canadian High Commissioner, Dr. Nicole Giles, and the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally, last week Thursday and was briefed on the potential of an Automatic Ballot Scan and Tabulation Voting System for use in both local and national elections in Guyana.
“The use of such a system could enhance the accuracy of vote counts and speed up the delivery of election results,” PSC said yesterday.
Expressing satisfaction with the information presented, the business association is now looking forward to the results of a preliminary assessment of the system by GECOM, should the proposed project find acceptance from key stakeholders.
The Canadian High Commissioner also pointed out that approximately 60 paper-based, automatic ballot scan and tabulation machines would be donated to Guyana by the DELIAN project, an independent non-profit organisation registered in Canada and the USA. Each machine handles in excess of 1,000 votes per day.
These systems, while speeding up the tabulation process, also provide for paper ballots which could be manually tabulated in the event of the need for a recount.
“The Private Sector Commission is of the view that such systems could be of great value to Guyana where the current methods associated with the tabulation and the transmission of votes tend to impede the official declaration of results.”
In the past elections, there have been criticisms over delays in the announcement of the results.
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