While he believes that electronic voting makes for faster tabulation and possible result declarations, Guyana’s current ballot box counting system seems hard to manipulate, former United States Ambassador to Guyana, Perry Holloway, says.
“Every system has its flaws but at the actual box, it seems to me, very, very hard to commit any significant fraud. Yeah, can one guy do something? But I mean like tens of thousands of votes?” Holloway said in an interview with reporters before leaving Guyana.
“I mean there could be other places where the system is weaker, you’d have to talk to some of the experts, but I was very impressed with the sanctity of the box there at the polling stand. What happens before or after, that’s probably areas we may have to be more vigilant and I’m sure they are,” he added.