COMMISSIONERS of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) met yesterday and certified the Official List of Electors (OLE).

Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Mr Keith Lowenfield, in an invited comment yesterday, told the Guyana Chronicle that the statutory 21-day posting of the Revised List of Electors (RLE), a list modified using the Preliminary List of Electors, ended on Sunday, April 12.

Eligible voters from the Guyanese public were invited to review the list during the three-week period to ensure the details are correct. Any inaccuracy would then have to be communicated to the Chief Elections Officer, who is duly authorised to effect the correction.

GECOM has consequently moved to finalise the voters’ list for the upcoming polls.

GECOM Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally, in a prior comment, had stressed that GECOM has a “menu of measures” to ensure integrity of the electoral process, and in particular that no one person votes more than once.

The list includes the names of 570,786 eligible voters, and the finalised OLE will facilitate voting at the upcoming polls.
As per law, the OLE must be posted across the country 20 days before the holding of General and Regional Elections on May 11 – by next Wednesday, April 22nd.

(Vanessa Narine)