With the ballots from 208 boxes already recounted as part of the national vote recount, the governing APNU+AFC coalition is alleging that the recount has unraveled “clear and unmistakable patterns of irregularities”.

In a Sunday night statement, the APNU+AFC said the recount has found “countless instances of dead persons being recorded as voting exclusively in PPP strongholds and countless instances of persons who have long migrated from Guyana and who were not in Guyana on Election Day being recorded as voting”.

The APNU+AFC coalition has been making its objections to the votes known during the recount and the objections have been recorded.

The coalition is also alleging that there have been countless instances of persons who did not uplift their ID cards from GECOM for many years being recorded as voting in PPP stronghold areas but with no corresponding Oaths of Identity being found in the ballot boxes.

An oath of identity document is required for persons who vote without the use of an ID card or passport.

In the lead up to the elections, GECOM had published the names of hundreds of persons who did not collect their National ID Cards over the period of several years.

The APNU+AFC in a statement said the recount has also found instances of votes for other parties being recorded for the PPP and additional instances of missing poll books.

The party said there were also instances of ballots that were cast clearly for the APNU+AFC being deemed as spoilt.

“What is emerging, even at this early stage, is that there was a systematic effort by the PPP on Election Day to corrupt the electoral process and to fraudulently cause votes to be registered for that party while seeking to disqualify votes for the APNU+AFC Coalition. This is an attack on the credibility of the electoral process by a single political party – the PPP – and its agents and co-conspirators”, the APNU+AFC said.

The coalition said it remains committed to the recount process “as it is unmasking the PPP attempts to contaminate and rig the March 2, 2020 elections”.

The Coalition said it has all of the evidence to back it claims and will also be informing the international community on the findings.

All of the concerns and objections being raised during the recounts are being recorded on the observation form and it is the Guyana Elections Commission which will have to decide on the way forward with the information received.

GECOM’s Public Relations Officer, Yolanda Ward has said the Commission has not started to look at the issue as yet.

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