Lowenfield, Myers, and Mingo must face the laws of...

rigging elections in Guyana were naturally idolised in the PNC’s ranks. In this context, the full control of GECOM was not enough to support their rigging platform, but a mandatory component of their wider focused manipulation areas for strategic manipulation.

In 1973, the PNC used the Army to blatantly rig the National Elections and they murdered and killed in the process. We must never forget the ballot box martyrs who paid with their lives for standing up against the PNC-directed murderous assaults. The 1980 and 1985 elections were massively rigged and it was this massive rigging that caused the people of this country to unite in the formation of the Political Committee for Democracy, (PCD); eventually leading to the dawn of a new era in 1992 when the PPP/C won the National and Regional Elections.

Again, the APNU+AFC attempts to steal the Government in 2020, forced the united opposition to strongly resist, and with the unflinching support of the international community a newly formed ‘Guardian of democracy,’ emerged from the Guyanese electorate.

They resisted for five long months, eventually winning their truthful people elected democratic rights to govern this country. During the process, it became clear that Lowenfield had deliberately engineered and allowed the usage of the illegal spreadsheets of fictitious results.

Further, the more diligent our guardians were, the more he demonstrated his ulterior motives and denied the usage of the legal Statements of Polls for the tabulation process. As the CEO of the GECOM Secretariat, his conduct dealt a deep body blow to the integrity of Guyana’s electoral system and cherished democratic values. Such occurrences justly and forcefully must be condemned as the ultimate betrayal of trust in the highest election official in the land, by the people of Guyana.

As for Myers, her attitude and role in the efforts to derail the process were most distasteful and typically what is not required in a DCEO of GECOM. She insulted the imminent foreign observers and was certainly a stranger to the truth. Myers' remarks to the party agents and international observers were condescending, insulting and distasteful as she at -

From page 6 tempted to force them out of the tabulation room with the assertion “take your rubbish with you and leave.”

The PNC used Lowenfield to catapult Mingo from Region #5 to Region #4 as Returning Officer (RO), which was a clear indication of their intentions. Mingo's role in the use of the Lowenfield spreadsheet was indeed vehemently opposed. Several persons are continuing to work at GECOM who were summoned to appear before the Commission of Inquiry but did not appear. It must be noted that GECOM will still have to further cleanse itself from the remnant rogue elements and ensure adequate internal counter-checking mechanisms.

The Commission of Inquiry must be complimented for a good job. However, those who are before the court must be given a speedy trial, and when found guilty they must be prosecuted so as to send a clear message on rigged elections’. Our citizens now demand a no-tolerance with the Lowenfield, Myers and Mingo type of operations!

Yours truly, Neil Kumar