THE Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) made a “human error” and did not deliberately manipulate the results of the 2011 General and Regional Elections, Executive Secretary to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Zulfikar Mustapha said yesterday.

Mustapha was speaking at a PPP press conference at Freedom House on Robb Street, in the presence of Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and Media Coordinator Mahendra Roopnarine.
Commissioner Vincent Alexander had recently written to the press accusing GECOM’s CEO Gocool Boodoo of falsifying the elections results so that the PPP could end up with a majority in parliament.
“Nobody is taking into consideration why this thing happened. That shows the kind of process that we have because not so long ago, the result that came out of Boodoo could have gone unannounced without scrutiny at GECOM. I think it is good that we have that kind of scrutiny there and things that are coming out from the elections secretariat are being reviewed,” said Mustapha.
According to Alexander, Boodoo’s original calculation had given the PPP/C 33 seats with 48.57 percent of votes, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) 26 and Alliance For Change (AFC) six.
However, the “accurate” calculation resulted in the PPP/C being given 32 seats, APNU 26 and AFC seven, giving the opposition the majority in parliament.