It would be illegal to merge data from the recent house-to-house registration process with existing electoral lists and any attempt will “contaminate the entire electoral process,” former Attorney General and PPP/C executive Anil Nandlall says.
“There is no provision in this statutory process for the data generated from the house-to-house exercise to be used in the electoral process. Neither is there any provision in the law which authorises the compilation of a list from that data and there is also no statutory provision for what use can be made of either the list or the data contained on that list,” Nandall yesterday told the Stabroek News.
“There is certainly no provision in the law for that list to be merged with the NRR [National Register of Registrants], the PLE [Preliminary List of Electors], the Revised List of Electors or the OLE [Official List of Electors]. Any attempt to merge this list with any of the aforementioned lists would contaminate the entire electoral process,” he added.
