Opposition parties APNU and the AFC yesterday said that Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo should no longer be in his position following stunning claims by an elections commissioner on how the ruling PPP/C was nearly handed a parliamentary majority in 2011 that it had not won.
In a letter in yesterday’s Stabroek New,s elections commissioner Vincent Alexander said that the near erroneous declaration in 2011 of a parliamentary majority for the PPP/C was not a mistake but a result of the changing of the formula by Boodoo.
“Every day, there is someone referring to Boodoo’s action, in his preparation of the results of the 2011 elections, as a mistake. There was no mistake. Mr Boodoo was singularly responsible for converting the vote count into seats. This was not his first exposure to the task. It was his third. There is only one formula for converting the votes into seats. How could it be a mistake if a factor in the formula is changed? There was no
