Preliminary List of Electors to be released early February

THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is moving apace with its preparations for the upcoming General and Regional Elections on May 11.And its Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) is expected to be made public early in February – just a few days away.

This was confirmed by GECOM’s Public Relations Officer, Richard François, who added that the Claims and Objections period, following the end of the seventh cycle of continuous registration will commence afterwards.
“It will happen right away,” he told the Guyana Chronicle in a telephone interview yesterday.
The seventh cycle of continuous registration started on November 30, 2014 ended on December 31, 2014. The period allowed persons the opportunity to register for the first time, conduct transfers and make changes to their registration details.
The numbers released to the Guyana Chronicle indicated that new registrations number 6,003 persons, while there were also 1,163 changes and corrections to existing registration information and 1,248 transfers due to issues related to change of addresses, etc.
Prior to the publication of the PLE the GECOM Secretariat was engaged in conducting a thorough fingerprint cross-matching exercise as it analyzes the fingerprints of registrants on both the existing National Register of Registrants as well as applicants for new registration and new databases to eliminate any/guard against multiple registrations.
According to Francois, the fingerprint cross-matching exercise, which extended to existing persons listed on the NRR, is part of a number of “crucial administrative” efforts that are necessary for the publication of the Preliminary List of Electors.
Once the PLE is made public, all persons who will be eligible to vote at the upcoming elections are urged to check the extracts of the document that will be displayed in their respective communities of residence to ensure that their details are accurate and to apply for registration/change/corrections/transfers during the Claims and Objections exercise as might be necessary.
At the end of the Claims and Objections period, an Official List of Electors is expected to be produced, which will be used for the upcoming General and Regional Elections. (Vanessa Narine)

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