Appeal Court throws out Govt’s H2H Registration challenge
…upholds ruling that residency not a requirement to vote
…confirms that AG’s mystery Act of 1991 “irrelevant”
The Court of Appeal on Monday upheld the August 14, 2019 High Court ruling by acting Chief Justice Roxane George which blocked the removal of persons from the National Register of Registrants (NRR) Database – something that the House-to-House (H2H) Registration exercise sought to do by creating a new database that would have excluded non-residents.
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The Appellate panel, consisting of Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory, unanimously voted to dismiss the appeal filed by Attorney General Basil Williams against the decision of Chief Justice Roxane George on the H2H Registration case by filed Christopher Ram.
In handing down the ruling, Chancellor Cummings-Edwards agreed with previous arguments of the Attorney General who had claimed that the case has no relations to the upcoming March 2 General and Regional Elections since the Notice of Appeal was filed in September 2019 – three months before President David Granger’s election proclamation.
She noted, “this matter is not an elections petition matter, and does not determine the validity of the elections…it has nothing to do with elections but issues arising from the Constitution”.
No relevance
Nevertheless, she asserted that the panel saw it fit to overrule the AG’s submissions which argue that residency is listed as a requirement in Guyana’s Constitution to vote.
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