GECOM to sanitise ballot boxes in another delaying ploy
Ballot recount
…restricts number of persons to be involved
The Moses Nagamootoo-led National COVID-19 Task Force has approved the use of the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) for the recount of the March 2 General and Regional Elections, but has limited the number of persons allowed to take part in the process to no more than 132 persons, for the counting of each of the 2339 ballot boxes.
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The decision was communicated on Thursday by Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Public Relations Officer (PRO) Yolanda Ward, but experts have advised that the virus does not survive beyond one week on any surface and as such, this move can be seen as another delaying ploy.
However, providing an update to members of the media even as the Commission met, Ward disclosed that GECOM was in receipt of some
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