I have been informed that this is the first time in Guyana’s post-independence electoral history – certainly the first time since the electoral reforms in the early 1990s – that elections have been called without the major parties having agreed upon the list of voters that is to be used on elections day or (even more concerning) agreed upon the process for arriving at such a list! As I understand it, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) proposed the merging of the results from the recently aborted house-to-house (HtH) registration with the new claims and objections (C&O) results and the opposition position is that this would cause unacceptable confusion and lead to its worst nightmare: persons being illegally taken off the list.
