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OAS maintains Mingo’s figures ‘fictitious’

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-14 02:57:42 

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In fresh preliminary statements on Guyana’s still incomplete March 02, 2020 elections, the Organization of American States (OAS) is maintaining that the declaration of the results for District #4 by Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo did not meet established standards for transparency and credibility.

Head of the OAS Observer Mission to Guyana’s elections, Bruce Golding said while the OAS is yet to release its final report, he believes that the figures contained in Mingo’s declaration for district #4, which gives the incumbent APNU+AFC coalition a victory, were fictitious.

The former Jamaican Prime Minister said the OAS mission of 17 experts were on the ground and saw firsthand the issues that arose during the tabulation of District #4 Statement of Polls (SOPs) which now taints the overall process.

“I have never seen a more transparent effort to alter the results of an elections. More than a dozen copies of the Statements of Poll are prepared at each polling stations after the ballots are counted… it takes an extraordinary and courageous mind to present fictitious numbers when such a sturdy paper trail exists,” Golding commented.