The automated voting system used in the recent University of Guyana Student Council (UGSS) election has been hailed by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and observers as “smooth and successful.”
“We (GECOM) were there as observers, I saw it and the system worked…you saw your ballot being counted and there wasn’t anyone who had anything negative to say,” Deputy Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud told Stabroek News yesterday.
In January of this year, GECOM had said that it was exploring the possibility of embarking on a pilot project in which