Belize Times May 20, 2018- Chief Election Officer Broke The Law

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20 MAY

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2018

The Belize Times

Established 1957

The Truth Shall Make You Free

20 MAY 2018 | ISSUE NO: 5097

www.belizetimes.bz | $1.00

CHIEF ELECTIONS OFFICER

BROKE THE LAW MASSIVE IRREGULARITIES IN SAN PEDRO ELECTION Wednesday, 16 May 2018 During hours of intense questioning by attorney Eamon Courtenay, SC, on Monday, May 14, 2018 election officials including Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai admitted to the most outrageous election irregularities. Tamai, Returning Officer Catherine Cumberbatch and Presiding Officer Desiree Flowers were in the court of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin after an election petition brought by the People’s United Party, specifically its municipal slate in San Pedro, asking that elections held in that municipality on March 7, 2018 be voided and a new election ordered. When the election results were released in the early hours of March 8, the UDP’s candidate, incumbent Mayor Daniel Guerrero, had apparently scraped by the PUP’s Abner Andre Perez by only 38 votes – 2,667 to 2,629. There was immediate protest after it was revealed that there were discrepancies with the ballots in which some

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