Over 1,200 proxy applications filed to date –verification process continues

CHIEF Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield yesterday disclosed that over 1,200 applications for proxy voting have been filed with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), up from just over 865 applications.“Our proxy applications received has exceeded 1,200 to date,” he said, in an invited comment.
According to him, the highest level of professionalism and compliance with legal provisions has been complied with during the verification process.
“Investigations are ongoing. We have not had any problems and the agents from the respective political parties who are accompanying us, we have had no complaints,” Lowenfield said
Lowenfield noted too that GECOM staffers have been briefed and there will be no “sample or survey” checks, rather complete verifications will be done.
“We have a procedure that sees our staff and party agents investigate all proxies,” he declared.
Meanwhile, legal provisions regarding the use of proxies will be followed, according to GECOM Chairman, Dr Steve Surujbally.
“We will follow the law,” he declared emphatically, in an earlier comment to the Guyana Chronicle, when asked to respond to concerns raised by the ruling party.
Proxy voting is guided by Section 30 of the Representation of the People’s Act. Applications for proxies have to be sent to GECOM’s Returning Officers no later than the 10th day before Elections Day, in this case by May 1st. According to the law, election agents on the fourth day before Election Day have the right to review and copy the list of persons who are slated to vote by proxy. (Vanessa Narine)

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