Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, suggesting a just, legal and non-partisan standard of proof that must be provided by any party that is asserting discrepancies and anomalies in the General and Regional Elections (G&RE) and/or the National Recount (NR).
Once the NR is complete however, GECOM would a fortiori have no alternative but to use the NR data to make a declaration, because this data would be free of the very discrepancies and anomalies that were the basis of the challenge to the 2020 G&RE and/or the NR itself!
But I pointed out that the two declarations made by the Returning Officer for Region 4 were, statistically speaking, unrelated to each other, even though they were arrived at using the same process for the same population of votes.
This latter is a very serious finding, as it calls into serious question both the declarations made by the Returning Officer for Region 4, and it compounds the more obvious problem created by the clearly incorrect tallies for the third parties that contested the 2020 General Elections in the “Mingo” declarations.
To the many people, some of whom have been good and close colleagues over the years, who now contend that democracy is more than the counting of votes; and who now strain at the “anomalies and discrepancies” gnat while joyously swallowing a camel named Mingo, I wish to point out that politically independent Guyanese who dread that the NR data may not be used to make a final declaration are not (even) afraid of ethnic domination.
