Shameless PNCR false claims show rigging intent

Dear Editor,

The PNCR has no shame as rigging is in its DNA.
The PNCR has always believed in staying in power by any means necessary. President David Granger and the PNCR owe the nation an explanation why they filed so many thousands of improper objections to names on the list, and the media must hold them accountable.

The PNCR’s attempts to remove 13,000 names of largely PPP supporters in Region 5, a PPP stronghold, show what has been its strategy all along – to remove valid PPP names from the Voters List – knowing it cannot win a fair and free election.

The House-to-House registration authorized by illegally appointed Chairman of GECOM, James Patterson, and hastened by the elections chief who was in a slumber since December 2018 and did nothing to continuously update the Elections List, was a smokescreen to mess with the list. The same with wanting to remove names of those who did not collect their ID cards.

Luckily, with strong PPP agitation (the newbie “paper” parties were nowhere to be seen), the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has rejected objections to a total of over 13,000 names being on the voters’ list in Region Five.
Now, calls are being sounded for those making the false objections to be charged.
It is reported that these objections were made by the Coalition’s Deputy Chief Scrutineer in the region, Carol Joseph, who failed to show up at the hearing.

She was also an APNU+AFC councilor who, it was disclosed, was acquiring excessive pain-killing medication from the clinics.
Instead of being praised for her action, the whistleblower nurse was transferred.

Knowing that it has lost support as seen by the PPP trashing them at the 2016 and 2018 Local Government elections by 25,000 and 45,000 votes respectively, the PNC knows it must use all tricks to disenfranchise PPP voters.
It is using its commissioners at GECOM to help in this quest, but hopefully, the Chair would put an end to these tricks.

The PPP must be prepared for many elections day gimmicks meant to deny its supporters the right to vote.
It must be organized with attorneys and party officials in every region to deal with elections day irregularities, and secure solid arrangements from GECOM to have elections day problems addressed speedily.

The PPP must agitate for many international and local elections day observers. This is the PPP’s burden to do as the new “paper” parties are clueless about these things.
It is clear the PNCR hopes to rig the elections and they must be stopped at all costs.
They have rigged an extra 15 moths of extension in government after being defeated in the No Confidence Vote, but their day of reckoning is coming on March 2, 2020.

Jerry Singh