The Official List of Electors (OLE) will be certified tomorrow, government and opposition-nominated Commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have confirmed.
The OLE contains the names of persons who will be eligible to vote at the Regional and General Elections fixed for March 2.
Government-nominated Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, and Opposition-nominated Commissioners Bibi Shaddick and Robeson Benn, confirmed the development at the elections body’s Kingston headquarters this afternoon.
Alexander told the media that some 661,028 names are on the list. He, however, has reservations.
“So, clearly we are going forward with a bloated list because there is no circumstance under which a population of 750,000 plus with a school population of approximately 200,000 can produce a voters’ list of 661,000,” he told reporters.
Alexander said that in the beginning, the National Register of Registrants Database (NRRDB) had some 663,365 names, from which 646,625 were extracted to create the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE). The PLE went through further alterations which saw the removal of names of 6,094 persons who are deceased. There were 68 objections, 16,642 names added from the house-to-house registration exercise, 4,258 claims and 368 duplicate names removed.
