PREPARATIONS for hosting the May 11 General and Regional Elections continue apace with expectation that the Official List of Electors (OLE) would be gazetted today.Dr Steve Surujbally, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), made this disclosure in an invited comment to the Chronicle yesterday.

This move, he said, follows GECOM’s certification of the OLE at a statutory meeting on Tuesday.

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 had been invited to review the list during the three-week period to ensure that 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 moved to finalise the voters’ list for the upcoming polls. the GECOM Chairman, 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 OLE comprises 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.