While maintaining the long-held contention that the voters’ list is bloated and a new one is needed before any election is held, Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton also said that the APNU+AFC did not see the need to participate in the recently concluded claims and objections period.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) recently concluded its claims and objections period. The exercise is aimed at, among other things, facilitating objections to the inclusion of persons who may be dead or otherwise disqualified but listed on the preliminary list of electors.
At the end of the process, there were only 17 such objections despite the consistent claim by the APNU+AFC Opposition of a voter’s list padded with the names of dead and migrated persons. There had been the expectation that hundreds of objections would be made by the APNU+AFC given their contention.
