With a low voter turnout, the declared district results of the elections have revealed that there were 4,126 rejected ballots.

A rejected ballot could be one with no marking, one with an uncertain marking, one that could identify the elector, and one in need of an official mark.

Based on the results that have been declared in the various districts, District 4 recorded the highest number of rejected ballots. There were 1,417 rejected ballots in the District that is home to the largest number of voters and home to the capital.

District 6 had the second highest number of rejected ballots with a total of 650, followed by District 3 with 563 rejected ballots and District 1 with a total of 364 rejected ballots.

District 8 recorded the lowest number of rejected ballots, totaling 103.

There were 266 rejected ballots in District 2, 293 in District 5, a total of 133 in District 7, while District 9 recorded 151 rejected ballots and 186 rejected ballots were recorded in District 10.

The issue will be a worrying one for the Guyana Elections Commission and the political parties. Back in 2020 when the voter turn out was much higher, there were 4,211 rejected ballots and the 2015 elections saw 4,093 rejected ballots.

A reason for the high number of rejected ballots has never been determined or studied, but in many instances there are more rejected ballots recorded than there would be votes allocated to some of the small parties.

The Guyana Elections Commission ran a voter education campaign in the lead up to Monday’s elections, although there were repeated calls for more to be done to educate voters about the process of voting.

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