Dr. SURUJBALLY has declared that GECOM and its staff do not practise dishonesty or collaboration with any political party. He assures us that the results are the true compilation of the Statements Of Poll of our Regional and General Elections. We are also informed that valid copies, of the SOPs of each place of poll, is posted outside such place of poll for all interested persons to peruse, record etc. I believe that the SOP of places of poll has been posted and I want to believe the good GECOM Commission Chairman’s declaration and assurance. What we need is access to the file / document that GECOM compiled of all the data from the SOPs so we can compare the data to satisfy ourselves and accept and defend the declaration and assurance of our GECOM Chairman.

It has not been the practice, in the past, of GECOM, making this file available on their website. This position should be modified to one of open access to such public information. It should take only a few minutes to upload and would be at negligible cost. The media can then publish this for all to see.

It is my firm belief that this will open the door to verification of the file / document by all interested parties and close the door on any doubts of GECOM’s compilation performance.