The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday declared that all potential voters for the 2020 elections must verify their registration during the extended Claims and Objections (C&O) process, sparking a furore among opposition-nominated commissioners who said the move was illegal.
It has never been a requirement for persons on a preliminary voters’ list to verify their identity with a registration office and there was no explanation for the change by the commission yesterday.
“During this exercise, every person whose name appear[s] on the Prelimi-nary List of Electors (PLE) must visit the Registration office in their respective area with their National Identification Card to verify their registration record in order to be included in the Official List of Electors (OLE),” the Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward, said in a statement issued yesterday.