British peer Lord Avebury who became well-known in local circles for a report exposing fraud in the 1980 general elections has died at the age of 87, according to the BBC.
Following his observing of the 1980 elections as part of an international team, Lord Avebury delivered a scathing report on the elections. He said in part “We came to Guyana aware of the serious doubts expressed about the conduct of previous elections there, but determined to judge these elections on their own merit and hoping that we should be able to say that the result was fair. We deeply regret that, on the contrary, we were obliged to conclude, on the basis of abundant and clear evidence, that the election was rigged massively and flagrantly”.
He famously described the Elections Commission of that period as a
