| The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), in the midst of preparing for polls to be held later this year, says it has dispatched a list of over 7,000 new registrants to political parties.The list, sent out yesterday, followed complaints by David Granger, Presidential Candidate of A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) that his party was yet to receive information about the new registrants.GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve SurujballyGECOM,Wholesale China Jerseys, amidst complaints that a significant number of persons will still be unable to vote because they were not registered, had reopened a Claims and Objections period which ended earlier this month. Some 7,Cheap Jerseys,000 persons were registered during the period.According to GECOM yesterday,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, it is fully committed to conforming to the spirit of the Registration laws of 2011.“Accordingly, Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of GECOM sent an electronic list of the names of all of the persons who had applied for registration after the enactment of this piece of legislation,” GECOM said in a statement last evening.GECOM said that its Chairman’s actions in dispatching the list was in compliance with the laws which require that, “the Commissioner shall make available to all registered Political Parties the names of all eligible electors registered subsequent to the enactment of this amendment.”In the letter, Dr. Surujbally explained that the enclosed electronic document contained the names of persons who have applied for registration after the enactment of the Amendment.“He noted that the procedure to establish which of the persons included in the list who were eligible for registration was,Cheap Jerseys From China, at that point in time, still in progress, since the Fingerprint Cross Matching exercise was currently being conducted and the consequential analyses pertaining thereto had yet to be carried out.”Further, Surujbally pointed out in the covering letter to the political parties that the final list of names, in compliance with the legislation, can only be issued after the eligibility of the applicants has been formally established.“Dr. Surujbally emphasized that the list of names represents the persons who have applied for registration, and is therefore provisional. He gave the assurance that GECOM will provide further notification as soon as the eligibility of the applicants has been ascertained.”GECOM disclosed that last Thursday, its Chairman received a letter from Oscar Clarke, General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), acknowledging that the information provided by GECOM “may” be in conformity with the law, but that the party could not use the data without the respective addresses.“Consequently, Dr. Surujbally replied by way of a letter dated August 19, 2011, wherein he reminded that he had pointed out that the list which he had dispatched on 17th August, 2011, was preliminary. Further,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, a CD with the Alpha List of New Registrants from Phase 2 of the Claims and Objections exercise, and containing the relevant address fields accompanied GECOM’s letter of August 19, 2011. This CD was also sent simultaneously to all of the other Parliamentary political parties.”The Commission noted that “it is quite inexplicable that the media reported the PNCR was accusing GECOM of being reluctant to provide opposition parties with full particulars of applicants for registration in the recently concluded Phase 2 of the Claims and Objections… and that Party was concluding that the Chairman and the CEO of GECOM do not feel obligated to respond positively to the legitimate requests of the PNCR and other Opposition Parties. As can be seen from the above, nothing could be further from the truth.”GECOM warned that its Chairman, the Chief Elections Officer, and every member of the senior staff of the Secretariat are fully aware of their statutory and administrative responsibilities and “will always strive to honour their duties without fear,Jerseys Cheap NFL, favour or bias.” |
