On Tuesday, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) spent its statutory meeting discussing two more proposals that government-nominated commissioners argued would strengthen the Official List of Electors while opposition-nominated commissioners stressed that they would “disenfranchise voters”.
Speaking on Tuesday on behalf of the government-nominated commissioners, commissioner Vincent Alexander explained after the meeting that the commission is now considering removing from the list the names of approximately 20,000 persons who have not collected their National Identification Cards (ID Card) since the 2008 House to House registration exercise (HtH).
Alexander argued that if the proposal is approved by the commission this failure to uplift could be used as a means to lodge an “objection” to the inclusion of those names on the Official List of Electors (OLE).