Former Attorney General and PPP Executive, Anil Nandlall on Friday said that the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) is making a mountain out of a molehill in relation to the wrongly placed ancillary documents from several elections Polling Stations along the East Coast Demerara corridor.
Nandlall, who along with other members of his party, worked along the East Coast on March 2 for the General and Regional Elections, said that they became aware of the issue the very night of March 2.
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He explained that Deputy Returning Officers for Polling Stations between Vryheid’s Lust and La Bonne Intention, ECD, took it upon themselves to uplift certain documents – polling book, marked and unmarked list of electors, folios, used seals and others from the Presiding Officers. This should not have happened because those documents should have been placed in the corresponding ballot boxes for the polling place.
Nevertheless, the POs sealed the ballot boxes with the votes for their stations.
Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, upon the insistence of the PPP/C, prepared a document where he outlined the rules that govern the operations of the POs but according to Nandlall, those were disregarded.
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“In these areas, the Deputy Returning Officer I don’t know either deliberately or unintentionally decided to arrogate onto themselves the power to lay down some new rules. They disregarded the CEO’s direction and they put all these materials in a separate package or in separate packages and transmitted them to the Returning Officer and what was left in the ballot boxes were only the ballots,” Nandlall told reporters on Friday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
The party raised this issue with the then Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, who assured them that it was a mistake and would be addressed administratively.
He noted that the party felt that the issue was dealt with and they went about their work.
APNU/AFC narrative
However, the APNU/AFC in pushing the narrative of electoral fraud raised the issue of the missing ancillary documents for the polling places.
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