…they are trying again in 2020

THE PPP intended to rig the coming elections from the outset. But they have been thwarted at every step along the road. They tried to get control of the GECOM machinery. The figure that that is where they can make the most inroads. The wanted a Chairperson they could control. They also wanted to put back some of their old lackeys, but that still didn’t work out. Everything they tried thus far has been unsuccessful.

So, they are running scared. They know that their chances of regaining the government is slipping away by the day. Consequently, they are trying every trick in the book to turn the tables in their favour. GECOM is one of their favourite targets. They are desperately trying to eliminate the data collected by the recent House-to-House Registration from the final voters list. Their original plan was always to go to the election with the old list without any form of sanitization. They are still hoping to get GECOM to go along with their trick.
One of the reasons the PPP hit the roof when GECOM sought to put conditions on the uncollected Identification Cards is because they believe that many of those cards belong to their potential supporters who have migrated. They want to bring those people back to vote on election day. They are also hoping that some of those cards can be utilized by fictitious voters. They are frustrated by the vigilance of some of the GECOM commissioners.
What is not generally known in Guyana is that the PPP are master riggers. They have always rigged the vote in areas under their control. The way the PPP rig elections is by stealing votes by the handful—a few dozens from each ballot box. By the time you know it, they have stolen two seats. This has been their practice since 1992. They have stolen votes by working in coordination with their people planted at GECOM. They had placed people in the supervisory aspects of the machinery. Then they put their people in critical IT positions.

In 2011, they attempted to steal a seat in South Georgetown from the APNU and give it to the PPP. They were caught red-handed by Vincent Alexander. This was rigging in broad daylight. They were caught just in time. Then in 2015, they tried to pass fake Statements of Poll. But they were again caught. The PPP will stop at nothing. They try to be clever by accusing others of rigging while they do the actual rigging. They are angry that they don’t quite control things at GECOM like they used to. They didn’t want to renew the contract of the CEO simply because they don’t think they can control him.

It is now an open secret that the PPP is full of money which they are using to try to buy people in strategic positions. We have to be vigilant against these attempts at bribery. It is the PPP’s trademark. They use planted people who don’t look like them to make the monetary offers to help them rig the election. We have to expose these people when we catch them. The money comes from the bunch of people that they made rich when they were in office. It’s payback time now.

But back to those people from overseas who they are bringing home to collect the ID cards and vote. The Political Teacher was reliably informed that the party people in New York are trying to raise money to fly people in on Election Day. But they are not making much progress on the front. People are chasing them away. Many people in Richmond Hill are reminding them of what they did to their own when they were in office. So, things are not working out well for them. But they will keep trying and hope for the best. The rigging machine is still in place