July 19, 2016  Source

THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) continued it’s call for the removal of Dr Steve Surujbally from the Chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) with the staging of a picket outside the entity’s High Street office today.

The placards read ‘PPP/C was cheated, not defeated, ‘Surujbally must go’, ‘These elections were not free and fair’, ‘We need impartiality from GECOM’ and ‘Recount my vote’, among other appeals.

The discovery of falsified Statements of Polls (SoPs); the refusal of GECOM to have public vetting of polling day staffers, many of whom were discovered to be activists of the political Opposition; misdirection by some GECOM staffers who “advised” voters; damaged stamps that saw some ballots not being properly stamped; the fact that persons without identification cards were allowed to vote even though their images did not match those in the files of GECOM staff; and the denial of proxy holders to use their proxies, are among the irregularities the PPP has spoken out against.

These issued are addressed in the Party’s 15-page elections petition, which requests that the court order the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to conduct a forensic recount of the votes. It also questions whether the election was lawfully conducted and the possibility of the officially declared results being altered.

Notably, the GECOM Chairman has publicly said that it will conduct the recount is so ordered by the court.

Today’s action was the latest in a series of protests that started soon after the May 11 General and Regional Elections’ results were declared by the GECOM Chairman.

When will the Indians of Guyana wake up and smell the coffee,they are out numbered by the mixture of other races,they need to think for themselves,than being followers like sheep.