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Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters – says GECOM


According to the Guyana Election Commission, (GECOM) Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters whose names will be published in the Revised List of Electors (RLE) on Monday for public vetting.

Yolanda Ward

Following a statutory meeting yesterday, GECOM’s Public Relations Officer, Yolanda Ward, noted that the RLE will be posted from January 4, 2020. Ward said that the list will be posted for 21 days for public scrutiny and corrections to be made to any erroneous information.
“Where changes were not made, persons should visit the registration office in their area with the ‘pink slip’ from 4th January to inform and update accordingly,” Ward stated.
Following the conclusion of the 21 days, GECOM will embark on preparing the Official List of Electors for the March 2, 2020 elections.
Last week, GECOM in a majority decision agreed to conduct a house-to-house verification of new registrants, which number approximately 16,000 persons. The verification of the data was conducted over the next five days.
Following the exercise, Ward disclosed that 6,534 of the purported new registrants from the truncated House-to-House exercise have not been confirmed.
Ward informed reporters that the Commission had resolved to subject the data to a short verification exercise, since the House-to-House exercise came under dispute by the political opposition.
During that exercise, GECOM field staffers were accompanied by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) scrutineers.
The verification exercise took off after it was noted that there were striking disparities in the cross-matched data that had returned from the overseas supplier.
Gemalto, an international digital security company, was contracted by GECOM to cross-match the house-to-house data.
Both tranches of data were returned and they appeared to indicate that there are about 60,000 total new registrants.
This unusually high figure prompted the Secretariat to conduct its own assessment of the cross-matched data. Of a list of 20,000 unverified new registrants, 4,020 of the persons were duplicates on the preliminary list of electors. That brought the list of new registrants to about 16,000.

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661,378 voters? So that means a mere 40 thousand are below voting age or unregistered to vote? That's if Guyana's population remains at 700,000/750,000 population to date. 

FM
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Following the exercise, Ward disclosed that 6,534 of the purported new registrants from the truncated House-to-House exercise have not been confirmed.

Why are these people still on the list then? What happens if suspected PNC agents(who are not these people) visit and confirm the names? Who is going to tell?

FM
skeldon_man posted:

Following the exercise, Ward disclosed that 6,534 of the purported new registrants from the truncated House-to-House exercise have not been confirmed.

Why are these people still on the list then? What happens if suspected PNC agents(who are not these people) visit and confirm the names? Who is going to tell?

Months ago I said the PNC has 7,000 agenda!  They did the numbers and know what is needed to put them over the top without the AFC.

In 2011 when I was with the AFC, the PNC said once they get into power, then not coming out!  They will do whatever it takes!  And they know no one can touch them.  They were gleeful at the bungling of the relationship between the PPP and PNC!

Now they have their cake, they don’t intend to give it up!

FM
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Baseman posted:
skeldon_man posted:

Following the exercise, Ward disclosed that 6,534 of the purported new registrants from the truncated House-to-House exercise have not been confirmed.

Why are these people still on the list then? What happens if suspected PNC agents(who are not these people) visit and confirm the names? Who is going to tell?

Months ago I said the PNC has 7,000 agenda!  They did the numbers and know what is needed to put them over the top without the AFC.

In 2011 when I was with the AFC, the PNC said once they get into power, then not coming out!  They will do whatever it takes!  And they know no one can touch them.  They were gleeful at the bungling of the relationship between the PPP and PNC!

Now they have their cake, they don’t intend to give it up!

Hopefully it turns into a powdered cake on them.

FM
kp posted:

Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters – says GECOM

According to the Guyana Election Commission, (GECOM) Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters whose names will be published in the Revised List of Electors (RLE) on Monday for public vetting.

With 661,378 eligible voters and assuming that 25% of the population are under 18 years of age, the population of Guyana is about 882,000.

Some 2018 sources indicate that Guyanese who are 14 years and under is about 30%

Interesting indeed.

FM
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Demerara_Guy posted:
kp posted:

Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters – says GECOM

According to the Guyana Election Commission, (GECOM) Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters whose names will be published in the Revised List of Electors (RLE) on Monday for public vetting.

With 661,378 eligible voters and assuming that 25% of the population are under 18 years of age, the population of Guyana is about 882,000.

Some 2018 sources indicate that Guyanese who are 14 years and under is about 30%

Interesting indeed.

That list is more padded than a wicket keeper. It's in the PNC to RIG all elections.

K
Demerara_Guy posted:
kp posted:

Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters – says GECOM

According to the Guyana Election Commission, (GECOM) Guyana has 661,378 eligible voters whose names will be published in the Revised List of Electors (RLE) on Monday for public vetting.

With 661,378 eligible voters and assuming that 25% of the population are under 18 years of age, the population of Guyana is about 882,000.

Some 2018 sources indicate that Guyanese who are 14 years and under is about 30%

Interesting indeed.

And these were the same fools who were moaning and groaning about the 2015 list.

FM

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