Commissioners from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have confirmed that this year’s Official List of Electors (OLE) is completed, with some 661,028 eligible voters.
Government-nominated Commissioner Vincent Alexander, after Tuesday’s statutory meeting, expressed concerns over the “high” number of the voters list, noting that Guyana’s population is just about 700,000 people.
But Opposition-nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj says the situation is normal.
“While I have my own reservations about what happens at GECOM and the procedures, the size of this list is a normal feature of the Continuous Registration system. And as a consequence, the growth of the list is nothing alarming,” he explained during a telephone interview.
In 2015, when GECOM had published the OLE ahead of those elections, the total number of voters was 570,787.
