Dear Editor, GECOM can’t be trusted. GECOM is a troubled agency. GECOM is heavily influenced by the ruling APNU/PNC political party. GECOM will never be able to deliver fair elections without the oversight of electoral observers. Therefore, this is an appeal to the GECOM Chair to protect the rights of Guyanese by immediately allowing the observers from UNDP and various entities into her agency. GECOM needs to be reasonable. Guyanese know that the UNDP offers to oversee the elections but GECOM is deliberately denying this. This is unfair and cruel.
Guyanese are worried that GECOM is shutting out key electoral observers at a critical time when the voters’ list is being compiled to simply rig the elections on behalf of the PNC. This is clear. The PNC is desperate to get back into power through rigged elections and GECOM is helping the PNC to accomplish this. This is the reason why GECOM is hell-bent on keeping the observers out. There is pure lawlessness within GECOM. The elections are being openly rigged. Local observers have also been complaining that GECOM is failing to engage them.
The PNC is expected to unleash endless rigging mechanisms throughout the electoral process. To this end, the PNC will not only disenfranchise voters perceived to be PPP but it will harass and cruelly abuse them. This is all part of the PNC election ritual. And on election night, the PNC will culminate the elections by burning the homes of PPP supporters and rioting like lunatics in the streets. I can never understand the PNC cruelty. We can all remember how Forbes Burnham dumped ballot boxes from the PPP strongholds into the Atlantic Ocean. The PNC remains uncivilized up to this day. Electoral observers are needed to oversee the entire electoral process.
And so, the motives driving Mr. Lowenfield, the Chief Elections Officer, to allegedly lie about how the UNDP did not offer any help for the general elections is crystal clear to all Guyanese. GECOM is determined to rig the elections. Guyanese cannot trust GECOM and it is the moral obligation of the GECOM Chairperson to immediately engage the UNDP and others.
During this election season, Guyanese have already witnessed how the shortsighted PNC representatives have been attempting to disenfranchise voters perceived to be PPP supporters. Just this past week, the PNC has attempted to disenfranchise 13,000 voters from Region Five and elsewhere. Also, the PNC has attempted to disenfranchise nearly all of the voters from the small Amerindian village near the upper Mahaicony River because they traditionally vote PPP.
The GECOM Chairperson needs to report the PNC fraudsters who are tampering with the elections to the police. These people are crying out for help. And discipline will force them to understand that it is dumb and reckless to rig the elections. We will follow this situation to see what actions the GECOM Chair will take in this matter.
The GECOM Chair desperately needs to be in control of her agency. She needs to accept critical help from the UNDP as soon as possible because the elections are about our lives. And the GECOM Chair must understand that rigged elections hurt every citizen.
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