The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) at an extraordinary meeting on Friday decided to post for public scrutiny the names of the approximately 20,000 new registrants recorded during the aborted House to House Registration exercise (HtH).
While the exercise recorded just over 370,000 entries, fingerprint cross-matching as well as a manual examination by GECOM’s Secretariat found that approximately 350,000 of those entries were already on the National Register of Registrants (NRR).
Usually reliable sources have explained to Sunday Stabroek that the decision to publicly post the 20,000 new registrants was one of three decisions made when the commission met on Friday. The other decisions were that the names of the new registrants would be provided to “stakeholders,” such as political parties, so that they could engage in their own verification and that each registration officer in the presence of party scrutineers would engage in a “desk review” of the list to ensure that those person are not entered into the NRR.
