PPP demands Gecom provide documents on results

Keeping up its attacks on the May 11 general elections, the PPP yesterday demanded that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) provide copies of all documentation showing the results.

In a press release, the party said even before the results were declared it unearthed numerous differences in numbers from its Statements of Poll and more importantly from a verification exercise conducted by the Returning Officers in the various polling districts at which representatives from all the political parties were present.

The PPP said it made its first formal request to Gecom for copies of the Statements of Polls, Tally Sheets, and a breakdown of the results from each polling division or ballot box after the Commission had declared the results on Saturday.

“To date we have received no reply to our request.

The information which we have requested should have been made public contemporaneous with the declaration of the results,” the party said. “We fear that this delay is another machination which is being used to alter Statements of Poll and Tally Sheets, as a result of the discrepancies which we have identified and in the face of a public pronouncement that we will launch a legal challenge to these elections.”

The PPP, which was in office for 22+years before losing the polls on May 11th, said that the longer Gecom takes to deliver these documents “the darker the clouds will become which loom over the integrity of the electoral machinery and indeed the results which it produced”.