Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Vishnu Persaud has revealed that he has written the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) for guarantees of no power outages at tabulation centres across the country.
He made this revelation during a recent stakeholder engagement with representatives of the various observer missions that will be monitoring the country’s elections.
Nevertheless, the CEO noted that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has systems in place in the event of power outages.
“There is no requirement for the use of any electronic gadget to process Statements of Poll at the level of the polling station, so our lamps will be sufficient to take care of that should there be a blackout…at the higher level, I have been in contact with the head of Guyana Power and Light, in fact, I have written him, providing him with the location of all of the places where we will be doing tabulation and requesting that as far as is practicable, we should not lose power…that apart, we are putting in place to have, not one but two standby generators…at every tabulation location,” the CEO explained.
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