The Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton rebutted the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) statement issued yesterday which sought to clarify remarks he made on Sunday on the possibility of ineligible foreign voters at the upcoming elections.
The controversy stems from Norton’s speech at a public meeting in Calcutta, Burma Road, Mahaicony where he said “We need a clean voters’ list because if you give all of them ID card, who is illegal and who isn’t illegal, it means when you put it up, it will show as them but they really aren’t qualified to be on the list, so we want a clean voter’s list in which only the people who are entitled to vote are placed on that list and we will fight for it…” He went on to say “there is no need to be going to Bangladesh to bring drivers, what they are really bringing is people to vote. But let we tell them, when we put we polling officers, in de poling station and they can’t talk proper English, you must know that a lot of the children who returned from Venezuela of Guyanese descent can speak English, also we will know that, but this government’s plot is to bring people into this country to use them to vote because they recognized they are not popular, we will not accept that.”
