Members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have reached a stalemate on the decision to reopen Claims and Objections to facilitate registration of eligible voters for this year’s elections.
GECOM’s six commissioners met yesterday morning with Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally on the issue, but this newspaper was told that the meeting produced no outcome as the commissioners could not reach consensus. Stabroek News understands that the government and opposition-nominated members of the commission were split on the issue. As a result, another meeting has been planned and Surujbally may be forced to cast the deciding vote. Surujbally could not be reached yesterday.
Although GECOM had previously ruled out extending the last Claims and Objections exercise, which ended June 9th, a commissioner requested that
