Georgetown : The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) says the results of the May 11 General and Regional Elections have been declared by the Chief Executive officer of GECOM since Saturday 16th May, 2015 unearthed numerous differences in numbers from our Statements of Poll and more importantly, from a verification exercise carried out by the Returning Officers in the various Polling Districts at which representatives from all the political parties were present.
In a statement today the PPP/C says “as a result, we requested a final general count as we are entitled to at law. The Returning Officers have no discretion to refuse this request. Yet this request was refused.
Therefore, this integral procedural step legally provided for and designed to ensure the integrity of the results for these elections was deliberately omitted.
Significantly, after the declaration of the results, we have made a request in writing for the copies of Statements of Poll and Tally Sheets which were used to tabulate the results of these elections and a breakdown of the results from each Polling Division or Ballot Box. To date we have received no reply to our request.
The information which we have requested should have been made public contemporaneous with the declaration of the results.
We fear that this delay is another machination which is being used to alter Statements of Poll and Tally Sheets, as a result of the discrepancies which we have identified and in the face of a public pronouncement that we will launch a legal challenge to these elections.
We hereby demand that GECOM furnish us with copies of these Statements of Poll, Tally Sheets and a breakdown of results of each Polling Division or Ballot Boxes forthwith. The longer they take to do so the darker the clouds will become which loom over the integrity of the electoral machinery and indeed the results which it produced.”
The party continue to maintain that the results declared by GECOM for the May 11 General and Regional Elections do not accurately reflect the will of the people.
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