Decision likely soon on if all election charges will be heard by one magistrate – source

State prosecutors as well as the defence attorneys and their clients, are all awaiting the new court date to hear two of the Magistrates at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court pronounce on whether the 30-plus election fraud charges will be tried before one Magistrate instead of the three who are currently presiding over the matters. 

The defendants, former Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield; former Deputy Chief Election Officer, Roxanne Myers; former District Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo; member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence; APNU+AFC activist, Carol Smith-Joseph; former Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Registration Clerks, Shefern February, Michelle Miller, and Denise Babb–Cummings; along with Information Technology Officer, Enrique Livan, were all charged in June of 2021 with conspiring to defraud the voters of the March 2020 general and regional election.