GECOM rebuffs Boodoo’s version of seats calculation

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) today disputed a statement by former Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo that it was the Information Technology division which had supplied an erroneous computation to the Commission for the allocation of seats at the 2011 general elections.

That incorrect seats allocation which would have given the PPP/C a parliamentary majority was challenged on the day the results were to be declared by Commissioner Vincent Alexander and it was subsequently corrected. In recent weeks, Alexander has accused