Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton today said the Opposition is still awaiting a report from the Attorney General, Anil Nandlall on the “evidence” supplied by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that supported its claims of voter impersonation during the last General and Regional Elections.    

In September 2022, the Elections Commission had handed over the “evidence” that was submitted by the APNU+AFC to the Attorney General. 

The “evidence” purportedly pointed to electoral fraud, more so, voter impersonation.

At the time, the Attorney General said the documents would have been shared with the relevant Government agencies to verify the claims. 

But Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton today said two years later, the report on the verification of the evidence is still to make its way out to the public. 

“Over two years have now elapsed. The AG has since gone totally silent on the matter. Why the convenient silence? Why the attempts to bury the matter?  We call on him to report to the Guyanese people whether (i) he did submit the APNU+AFC documents to the relevant government agencies for verification, and (ii) what are the formal responses of those agencies,” Norton said.

 The ‘evidence,’ according to the Opposition, includes a list of dead persons for whom others had voted, and a list of several hundreds of persons who purportedly voted at the 2020 elections when official immigration records confirmed that they were out of the jurisdiction. The Opposition appears convinced that the evidence confirms that the elections were tainted.

“We in the PNCR/APNU are unshaken in our belief that voter impersonation and identity theft were rampant at the 2020 elections to the benefit of the PPP. The records in the possession of GECOM and the Attorney General have confirmed our contentions. As we continue to press for the AG and the PPP to come clean, we have embarked on a campaign for a new voters list and fingerprint biometrics to be introduced in time for the next regional and general elections. Guyanese demand and deserve no less,” the Opposition Leader said. 

Mr. Norton said the Attorney General had enough time to fully examine the grave allegations of voter fraud, and the verification report must be made public. 

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