The Guyana Elections Com-mission (Gecom) says it is unfortunate that its thoroughness in the ongoing house-to-house registration is being “wilfully misconstrued” as slothfulness and has insisted that any delay in the editing of transactions would be linked to its multi-tiered quality control measures.
The commission yesterday organized a media tour of its data entry registration and electoral list sections and Voter Registration Manager Beverly Critchlow explained that the department could only edit the completed transactions as they came in from the field, after which they are sent to be encoded.
Gecom has come in for criticism for the pace of its registration process. Just last week at a press conference, PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar told reporters that the party’s Central Committee discussed the problems being encountered in the registration process. He said the issue of no birth certificates was persistent and the situation relating to names of persons was not yet resolved.