CARICOM team submits elections recount report to GECOM
From left: CARICOM Ambassador Colin Granderson, CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations; Mr. Sylvester King, Deputy Supervisor of Elections of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI); and Mr. John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission
From left: CARICOM Ambassador Colin Granderson, CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations; Mr. Sylvester King, Deputy Supervisor of Elections of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI); and Mr. John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission

The team of high level officials of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has submitted its report on the recently concluded recount process of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

The team which comprise Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission, John Jarvis, University of the West Indies Lecturer Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, and Supervisor of the Electoral Commission of St. Vincent, Sylvester King, were expected to depart for their home countries after submitting the report to the Office of the chair of GECOM earlier today.

There was no formal handing over of the report by the CARICOM team, GECOM’s public relations officer Yolanda Ward noted and details of the team’s report are still unknown.

Deliberations on the Chief Elections Officer (CEO)’s Report on the National Recount could result in the 2020 General and Regional Elections being nullified due the widespread irregularities and allegations of voter impersonation that have been uncovered, a move that would, undoubtedly, land Guyana in “uncharted waters,” President David Granger said on Sunday during an interview with a team of reporters.

That deliberation is expected to commence today when the Chair of the Elections Commission, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh meets with the six Elections Commissioners — Vincent Alexander, Sase Gunraj, Charles Corbin, Robeson Benn, Desmond Trotman and Bibi Shadick — at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s Headquarters on High and Cowan Streets, Kingston.

The report comprises a tabulation of the votes recounted and a Summary of Observation Reports for each of the 10 Electoral Districts, Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield indicated that the General and Regional Elections held on March 2, 2020 lacked credibility due to 4,864 suspected cases of voter impersonation, and more than 2,000 anomalies that have impacted well over 200,000 votes across the 10 Electoral Districts. Due to the overwhelming number of anomalies, and instances of voter impersonation, he concluded that the Elections did not satisfy the criteria of impartiality, fairness and compliance with the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act.

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