Tampering with voters’ list

Dear Editor,
There are many strategies employed by this present PNC-led coalition that tells everyone that an election rigging campaign is on. There is no question in anyone’s mind what the intentions of the PNC are in its shenanigans, they are out in a do or die effort to carry out one of the most brazen acts of dishonesty never before seen in Guyana’s history.

The telltale signs of rigging are all across our country right down to the finest detail, the only problem is how to carry it out. The stumbling block between them achieving their aim and pulling off that rigging stunt is the ever-vigilant Opposition.
Now, let us turn our gaze to the latest rigging stunt by the PNC, and that comes in the form of the removal of names from the Official Voters’ List. We are talking about the removal of registered, living persons from the OLE on the flimsiest of reasons that GECOM cannot account for their existence.

I have in previous letters exposed this asininity of GECOM having to take on the role of a tracker dog. Whenever an electoral body takes on that nefarious role of harassing and intimidating a voter, they cease being a democratic organisation and are now acting in the capacity of a political institution. They are now treading on dangerous ground, being an extension of a party and a tool in the hand of politicians.
The removal of a registered voter is a criminal act and must be seen in that light, even if that decision is coming from a Judge; a crooked partisan Judge. We have to stand up to any directive that is not sanctioned in the Constitution of Guyana and this act is one of them. So, trying to disenfranchise a voter is illegal.
The fact is, if someone is dead, as they claim, then that person cannot vote; a dead person cannot vote. I do not see the big hue and cry of the PNC as it relates to registered names on the voters’ list, being rendered dead (according to their theory) causing any problem. What problem can a dead person pose?

If you are dead, then you are dead and cannot vote, what’s the charge? People die all the time, whether by accident or natural causes and some of those registered might not be here on election day. Even some who are active and alive now might very well not be around on March 2, so what’s the problem? Are they going to postpone the elections because of those names?
It shows how ridiculous the PNC’s claim gets as we get closer and closer to election 2020. But far more important is the fact that there is the use of an indelible ink when someone has voted, the question is, what about the indelible ink, isn’t that a form of identification that someone has voted? When someone votes, their finger is stained with voters’ ink which means that he/she cannot vote a second time.

The indelible ink puts to rest all claims that someone has or has not voted, so here ends the tale of multiple voting.
But what the PNC is not telling the people is their use and, in some cases, none use of the indelible ink. The PNC has been known to carry out these nefarious activities in their strongholds at elections, which tells of their fear of the indelible ink.

So, whatever the strategy ranging from the removal of the so-called ghost electors from the OLE to the use of the voters’ ink, all of these things will prove to be detrimental to the PNC.

Respectfully,
Neil Adams