IN a last-ditch effort to seek to invalidate the recently concluded electoral process, the leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton, in a letter, claimed that several Statements of Poll (SoPs) were not signed by presiding officers.
Norton made this allegation in a letter to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in which he asked for the 2025 electoral process to be aborted or a forensic audit to be conducted.

The letter said that the SoPs for ballot boxes nos. 40711, 407268, 40729, 41003 and 41005, among others, were not signed by the presiding officers at polling stations contrary to the Representation of the People Act.
However, a quick check of these SoPs, which were posted to GECOM’s website, showed that the allegations made were untrue as they were all signed by the respective Presiding Officers.
GECOM, as stipulated by law, ensured that the SoPs were immediately uploaded to the website by the Returning Officers in a bid to improve accuracy and transparency.