Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, will on Friday announce her decision on the timeframe to be utilised for the national recount of the March 2, 2020 votes.
Taking into consideration proposals put forward by Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, government-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander and opposition nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj, Justice Singh’s decision will pave the way for the process to move forward.
On the table is the five-station proposal by the CEO, which takes into account the key role the high-level five-member CARICOM team will be playing in the process. His proposal also suggests two hours allotted for each of the 2, 339 ballot boxes.
The proposal by Commissioner Alexander suggests that the process can be completed using six to eight workstations, utilising one and a half hours per box.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Sase Gunraj’s proposal of 20 workstations each, is also seeking to utilise one hour per ballot box for the process.
The time spent on a ballot box will determine how many days the process will take to complete.
“If the exercise was to take two hours per box, it would require 64 days. If it were to take 1 and a half-hour, the process would take 48 days. If it were to take one hour, it will be 32 days,” A