Georgetown, Guyana.
April 26, 2022
For immediate release to all media houses.
PRESS RELEASE
AFC SAYS THE LIST OF ELECTORS IS NOT CLEAN
The Alliance For Change (AFC) once again demands that the impending Local Government Elections (LGE) be postponed until GECOM can ensure that the official List of Electors is purged of contaminants and fraud. The current list of electors being promoted as the list for the LGE is not clean.
If the recent reports of fraud blatantly committed in the process of submitting documents to GECOM for parties to qualify for the upcoming LGE are anything to go by, they confirm that the List of Electors held up by GECOM to be safe, secure and sacrosanct is far from being so.
The AFC finds it astonishing that despite the national embarrassment of fraudulent activities revealed during the national recount exercise, agents of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) have continued in their corrupt act to forge and abuse the names of the deceased and migrated in the composition of the current list of electors.
We are still traumatized by the revelation that persons, who had legitimately migrated by March 2, 2020, voted in several polling stations during the March 2020 general elections. The disclosure then also showed an assortment of outright fraud, evasion of standard practices and the deliberate ignoring of electoral procedures to steal the election.
The pious apology from the PPP’s General Secretary, Mr Bharat Jagdeo, the architect of the party’s political campaign, has failed to convince anyone that these repeated instances were not naked fraud and part of a planned strategy to rig the election.
Fortunately, due to the presence and capacity of social media, people can see at ‘lightning speed’ the extent of the fraud, where it originates and incubates. Therefore, it will be of no surprise to any Guyanese where the so-called command centre will be located to unleash and manage this new element of fraud.
The Alliance For Change finds it distressing the sickening silence of GECOM and that of the diplomatic community, who have inserted themselves in the Guyana election process, that they have not condemned the flawed list of electors.
Now that the fraud has been laid bare, there is no word or whisper from them, and the worry about foreign embassies and governments being complicit does not seem to matter. Instead, for GECOM itself, it is a sorry and sad shell of an institution that requires a complete overhaul, from inside out and top to bottom, before it can truly say it can and has delivered free, fair and credible elections.
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