Up to Saturday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was able to verify approximately 55 – 60 per cent of the new registrants from the House to House (HtH) exercise. This is according to People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Chief Scrutineer Zulfikar Mustapha, who spoke with Stabroek News yesterday. In an exercise which started on Thursday and which was scheduled to end yesterday, the 16,396 supposedly new registrants recorded during the truncated national HtH registration exercise were scheduled to receive visits to verify that they are indeed first-time registrants.
Mustapha was optimistic that GECOM would complete 100 per cent verification by the deadline. He shared that over 8,000 names were verified within the first two days of the exercise, which informed his optimism that the remaining 8,000 could be verified by the end of yesterday.
