On April 30th 2015, this was the Headline:
APNU+AFC launches Project GPS to get unofficial elections results fast
- Thursday, 30 April 2015 18:57
- Written by Demerara Waves
Project GPS has two phases, the opposition coalition announced. Phase One of the GPS mapping of all the Polling Booth locations for the May 11th General Elections.
Phase Two is the submission of photographs of the Statements of Poll on election night, the party explained.
The coalition wants members of the public to submit the GPS locations and photos of polling stations nationwide using their smartphones via WhatsApp to mobile number 602 7021.
"On election night members of the public are asked to take a photo of the Statement of Poll after it is posted outside the polling station and send to the same number or upload to their social media accounts using the hashtag #guyanadecides," says APNU+AFC.
The coalition says all Statements of Poll (SOPs) will be collated and posted on the internet for everyone countrywide and overseas to see unofficial results. The website on which the results will be posted will be announced later.
This was my response:
This is dangerous and is a new way of rigging elections. How many blank and faked Statement of Polls are in the wrong hands out there? All the coalition has to do is get hold of one Statement of Poll and print as many copies as they want from that one. The APNU/AFC coalition can put their own numbers in, use fake signatures of GECOM officials/Party officials and photograph it and send it on their mobile phones. The photographed fake unofficial Statement of Polls could turn out to be very different from the real unofficial Statement of Polls. The AFC/APNU could create so much confusion to justify that the elections were rigged. The solution is to place FAX machines in all the polling stations and have the FAXED Statement of Polls sent to GECOM. In any event GECOM should make a statement on its position on this new information.