Politics

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Saturday began reading the observation reports associated with Statements of Recount and decided to include sign language interpreters in the tabulation of results of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general elections, sparking off a new row between allied commissioners of the country’s two major political parties. The fresh quarrel erupted at the ...

The Guyana government Saturday afternoon broke its more than one week silence on why the Carter Centre observer mission was not allowed to return to the country to observe the recount of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections. Chief Executive Officer of the COVID-19 Task Force, Joseph Harmon said Guyanese authorities informed that based on ...

Pro-coalition Elections Commissioner says some boxes of ballots have been excluded from the tabulation of votes  cast until the seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) decides what should be done. “We have instances, for example, where the number of ballots are greater than the number crossed off on the official voters list. A number like that is a credibility issue,”  he ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will in the coming days review the number of days the national recount of general and regional election votes will take, based on the current rate per day and the tabulation exercise. GECOM spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward said the commission would review this week’s work and including its 25-day timeline for the recount of the more ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) spokeswoman was Friday afternoon unaware whether the administration or the seven-commision has considered a request by A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) for the Information Technology (IT) Manager, Aneal Giddings to be removed as supervisor of the tabulation process. Spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward was asked to comment on a formal request by APNU+AFC Elections ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has disputed claims of electoral fraud at a polling station at Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, showing that the Statement of Recount is matching the Statement of Poll. PPP Executive Member, Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall scotched rumours by the incumbent coalition that the recount had, now in Day 3, had uncovered a major discrepancy with the votes that ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday called on the incumbent A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) to file an elections petition to prove that people voted in the names of dead people and overseas-based Guyanese. He said the coalition was behaving characteristically like a losing party and questioned the logic of wanting ...

There was no secret meeting between senior Information Technology (IT) staff members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and representatives of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday and suspension of the tabulation had nothing to do with that interaction, a GECOM  spokeswoman said. GECOM spokeswoman, Yolanda Ward said “no” when asked whether the delay in the start of the ...

Executive Member of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Anil Nandlall says the 25 boxes of ballots that were recounted on Wednesday so far proves that his party’s Statements of Poll are accurate, but other pro-government players in the exercise say a number of discrepancies were found. “By and large, the process has confirmed the accuracy of the PPP’s Statements ...

The recount of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections dragged on Wednesday afternoon, with just about 22 boxes declared from which a small number of discrepancies were found, according to well-placed sources. The recount on Day 1 of the exercise at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre began two and a half hours later at 10:30 ...