Disciplined services ballots being finalised
Commissioner Sase Gunraj
Commissioner Sase Gunraj

WITH only 19 days to the 2020 General and Regional Elections, plans are moving apace to facilitate voting in advance for the disciplined services, while matters relating to polling stations are almost finalised.

Following the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOMs) statutory meeting, on Tuesday, Commissioner Sase Gunraj confirmed that ballots for the disciplined services are being enveloped. “Ballots have been extracted since last Friday and, as we speak, those ballots are being enveloped as part of that process,” he stated.

Members of the disciplined services are set to vote on February 21, 2020. Similar to the non-resident electors, ballots for the disciplined services will be extracted according to the region where the elector was registered.
According to GECOM, there will be 47 ballots for Region One; 282 for Region Two; 1,482 for Region Three; 5,324 for Region Four; 976 for Region Five; 1,328 for Region Six; 61 for Region Seven; 17 for Region Eight; 29 for Region Nine; and 680 for Region 10.

The ballot officers for the disciplined services are Roxanne Ramdyhaw Lewi for the Guyana Defence Force; Nardeo Persaud for the Guyana Police Force; and Onicia Bynoe for the Guyana Prison Service. Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield gave the assurance that the ballots will be locked in various containers for the duration of the exercise, prior to dispatch. Ballots for overseas missions have also been dispatched.

Meanwhile, the total amount of polling stations to be used, including private residences, will be gazetted soon. Gunraj said: “I believe that the full list of polling stations will be released to us tomorrow and I believe gazetted shortly thereafter.” As part of preparations for the General and Regional Elections, Lowenfield had said there will be 2,352 polling stations inclusive of 131 private residences, of which 91 of the private residences are in Region Four, particularly on the East Coast corridor. Added to this, the Commissioner announced that soon members of the electorate will be able to see the polling stations they must vote at in an updated online query service in the works.

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