Linden records less than one per cent voter turnout

Mar 19, 2016 News

Yesterday was an historic day in Guyana as Local Government Elections (LGE)

Linden two families after exercising their franchise yesterday morning.

were held for the first time in 22 years.
In Linden voter turnout was extremely poor with only about 1,000 persons voting by mid-afternoon. That was out of a possible 23,000, informed sources indicated.
Disappointing, was how most persons described the turnout.
Sandra Adams of the APNU/AFC coalition said that even though some persons had indicated disinterest in the LGE, she was still disappointed.
“I thought that with all the work that we would have done, educating people about the importance of LGE and what it means for us as a community, more people would have turned out to vote, so I’m disappointed.”
Those sentiments were echoed by several other persons including candidates.
One candidate expressed both surprise and disappointment that despite all the hard work that was done by candidates to educate their constituents, persons still opted not to go out and vote.
The consensus by some was that the day should have been designated a holiday, in order to cater for those persons that had to work.
‘There are some employers that refuse to give their workers time off to go and vote-they don’t see it as important. Then again some people are too tired after working all day to do anything else. My daughter told me straight she ain’t able—she’s too tired,” one woman lamented.