WHILE it has always been obvious that the PPP does not want to have a thorough and comprehensive examination of the results of the March 2 General and Regional elections, it is now becoming increasingly evident that the PPP is utterly and desperately terrified of a full recount and forensic audit of the elections. It is possible to determine the reason that the PPP is terrified of a comprehensive audit if one examines the auditing process, and the fact that a full examination will definitely reveal skulduggery and fraud.
First, we should bear in mind that the ultimate goal of the PPP is to grab political power at any cost, legal or illegal. Political power, though an end in itself, is also a means for the demonstrably greedy PPP heads to get their hands on taxpayers’ money and Guyana’s resources. Clearly, the PPP planned and plotted, and on December 21, 2018, the PPP put their sinister plot into motion with the allegedly paid-for no-confidence vote.
Regarding the recount and audit, we should know what the PPP wants versus what the Coalition desires. From the moment that the idea of a recount/audit, supported by the Coalition, began to gain traction, the PPP bosses have been running around the place like headless chickens in an effort to prevent such an exercise. They ran into the streets and staged ridiculous protests; they ran to the law-courts with comical motions and requests. The PPP brazenly threatened government officials, GECOM staff, activists, and even engineered attacks on innocent children. Yet, in spite of all the running around, the PPP lost.
Eventually, they tried to have only one region counted, Region # 4. After they ran around some more, they lost again, and it is now the current reality that all the regions will be recounted. That is what the Coalition wants: A full, transparent, comprehensive recount and forensic audit of the results of the elections in all the regions.
As it is, the PPP, having lost their desperate bid to prevent a recount, is now running around again. This time, however, the PPP bosses and heads, having accepted that they cannot stop a recount, are trying to block the audit. In other words, they just want the ballots to be counted, and nothing more.
They DO NOT want all the contents of the ballot boxes to be scrutinized, because, as GECOM has said in a ‘Guidance Note’, “A review of key documents is imperative to establish that the number of ballots found in the box accord with the number of electors who appeared to have voted at the polling station.” And, the PPP heads know that such a review will reveal their dirty hands; an audit will disclose their dishonest ways, and their rigging of Guyana’s elections.
Further, the PPP heads are running around even faster, trying to prevent the use of the list of electors in the recount, because they know that, the voters’ list, when it is compared with the numbers of ballots in the ballot boxes, will clearly show that the PPP stuffed ballot boxes, when, in truth, no one voted. In fact, the PPP’s Anil Nandlall admitted it.
He said, “Why are you expanding the scope of the process [to] check off things like the List of Electors (Voters’ List) who were ticked [off] by the presiding officers? What is the purpose of that? Why are you going to open envelopes of unused ballots and count it?” A terrified Nandlall said, too, “Why are we going to examine the whole process of elections? You are bound to find irregularities. That, to me, is creating a platform for unnecessary queries to be raised…” And, there it is, the PPP has just admitted that there were irregularities. And, who created those irregularities? Well, the answer is obvious.
The APNU+AFC Coalition wants to find the irregularities by auditing everything, while, on the other hand, the PPP wants to hide them by trying to prevent a recount and audit. Evidently, the PPP has a lot to hide; the PPP heads are terrified of being found out to be the dishonest, untrustworthy, fraudsters, and election-riggers that they are. But, the process is unstoppable; there will be a full, comprehensive, recount, and a thorough forensic audit. And, the sheep’s clothing of the PPP will be stripped away, revealing the greedy wolves beneath.
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle_epaper_05_05_2020