An appeal to the GECOM Chair to protect the rights of Guyanese

Dear Editor,

GECOM can’t be trusted. GECOM is a troubled agency. GECOM is heavily influenced. GECOM will never be able to deliver fair elections without the oversight of electoral observers. Therefore, this is an appeal to the GECOM Chair to protect the rights of Guyanese, by immediately allowing the observers from UNDP and various entities into her agency.

GECOM needs to be reasonable. Guyanese know that the UNDP has offered to oversee the elections, but GECOM is deliberately denying this. This is unfair and cruel.
Guyanese are worried that GECOM is shutting out key electoral observers at a critical time when the voters’ list is being compiled. There is pure lawlessness within GECOM. Local observers have also been complaining that GECOM is failing to engage them.

Guyanese cannot trust GECOM and it is the moral obligation of the GECOM Chairperson to immediately engage the UNDP and others.
During this election season, Guyanese have already witnessed how the shortsighted PNC representatives have been attempting to disenfranchise voters perceived to be PPP supporters. Just this past week, the PNC has attempted to disenfranchise 13,000 voters from region 5 and elsewhere.

Also, the PNC has attempted to disenfranchise nearly all of the voters from the small Amerindian Village near the upper Mahaicony River because they traditionally vote PPP. The GECOM chairperson needs to report the fraudsters who are tampering with the elections to the police. These people are crying out for help. We will follow this situation to see what actions the GECOM Chair will take in this matter.

The GECOM Chair desperately needs to be in control of her agency. She needs to accept critical help from the UNDP as soon as possible, because the elections are about our lives.

Sincerely,
Dr. Annie Baliram