The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has published the Official List of Electors (OLE) for the March 2nd, 2020 general and regional elections.
Just after 8 pm last evening, the list of 661,028 names was posted on the Commission’s website (https://www.gecom.org.gy/home/ole) in a portable document format (PDF), while the site also includes a search tool through which persons can verify their registration record.
Anyone choosing to access the tool must use either their nine-digit national identification number or full name and date of birth.
Last Tuesday, government-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander told reporters that the final list, which he describes as “bloated,” reflects a series of changes made over several months.
He explained that the National Register of Registrants (NRR) from which the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) was drawn included 663,365 names and that list, published on October 1st, 2019, contained 646,625 names.
Since then the names of 6,094 dead persons were removed based on information from the General Register Office, the names of 68 others were removed based on successful objections, the names of 16,642 electors were added from last year’s curtailed national House-to-House (HtH) registration exercise and the names of 4,258 electors were added following a Claims process.
The grand total in the NRR, Guyanese 14 or older, was 678,105, while eligible electors, Guyanese 18 years or older, stood at 661,378. A final alteration to the list was the removal of 358 duplicate names for a final number of 661,028.
Of that number, 88,876 have had changes made to their addresses based on information collected during the HtH exercise.
