There are facts about the current voters list that cannot be disputed. It is true that the names of 40,000 dead people are on the list. It is true that the names of 160,000 missing or nonexistent people are on the list. It is true that the list does not have the names of thousands…
Dr Jagan makes the case against overseas persons on the list
Dr Jagan was firm in the belief that that 16% overseas persons on the list will compromise the integrity of the elections. In 2019, Bharrat Jagdeo has the opposite position. He wants a list with 33% overseas persons.
Jagdeo Brazenly Breached the Accepted Trend for the Appointment of GECOM Chairman Started by Dr. Jagan
When it was Jagdeo’s turn to make a nomination the trend was abandoned, and the political reality became obscure. For some reason Jagdeo believed the chairman must be someone he is comfortable with, even if the President is not. This attitude was reinforced when Jagdeo resubmitted the names previously rejected by President Granger.
Peter Wickham should not be complicit in PPP effort to steal an election
The PPP lives in mortal fear of a clean list. In 1990 the PPP call for a clean list delayed the elections by two years. House to House Registration was conducted but when it was finish the PPP still was not satisfied. They produced 50,000 names, and the Carter Center pressured GECOM to add those names. The PPP made merry with those names, and had comfortable election victories in 1992, 1997, 2001, and 2006.
The CCJ Stumped Jagdeo
However, the CCJ in its inexplicably remarkable wisdom held that the President violated the constitution by not consulting with Jagdeo on names that were not unacceptable to him. This consultation requirement is a ridiculous invention by the CCJ that is not provided for in the Guyana constitution. Additionally, the CCJ
ruling introduced the doctrine of consensualism into Article 161 (2) of the constitution – another invention that is outside of the thinking and intent of the framers of our constitution.
Confidence in Guyana
A lot in four years by APNU-AFC
Development
Under the PPP infrastructure projects were seen as an opportunity for corruption.
Jagdeo refused to address the 50,000 fictitious and 40,000 dead on the Voters List.
Jagdeo acknowledged that the APNU-AFC government is not trying to use the call for House to House Registration to disenfranchised PPP supporters. Instead, he wondered if the government was calling for House to House Registration just to delay elections. However, he did not acknowledged that since 2012, PNCR Commissioner Charles Corbin wrote GECOM Chairman Steve Surajballi, and other commissioners making a case for House to House Registration to address the bloated list.
Monitoring Corruption
Recently, the PPP’s iNews made a big to-do over the change in Guyana’s position, from 91st in 2017 to 93rd in 2018, out of 180 countries, on Transparency International’s global Corruption Perception Index ranking. According to iNews, this was an indication of a flurry of corrupt activities in Guyana between 2017 and 2018. What iNews…
Guyana’s voters list is a can of worms
It is not only the dead walking on Guyana’s voters list, phantoms are walking too. It is possible that as much as 40,000 phantoms were on the list used for the 2015 elections, and as much as 50,000 on the list the PPP is asking the CCJ to direct GECOM to use for the next elections.