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FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
VOLUME 113, No.08
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The team for their petitioners in discussion during a break. It was there week to make their case.
by DAYLE DA SILVA FORM 16 IS THE DOCUMENT used by official workers at a polling station to record both the preliminary and final results, and gives account of all the votes cast. The question of whether a Form 16 was presented at the final count for polling station NW1 in the North Windward constituency, during the 2015 general election, was the focus of the Elections Peition earlier this week. According to the Keith Scotland, the lawyer representing Sylvia Findlay-Scrubb, former Supervisor of petitioner Lauron Elections, remained forthright in her Baptiste, the New responses, but may have opened some way Democratic Party’s for Scotland to pursue the issue to a hilt. candidate in North
Windward in the 2015 elections, there was none. The assertion by Scotland came during his cross-examination of Sylvia Findlay-Scrubb, who was the Supervisor of Elections (SoE) up to the 2015 elections.
Keith Scotland, legal counsel for petitioner Lauron Baptiste, drilled the former Supervisor of Elections on the existence or non-existence of a Form 16 for polling station NW1.
as to what transpired?” Scotland asked. She said that such an issue would have however been resolved by the Counterfoils and ballots presiding officer, with the official numbers included on Scotland asked Findlay- the Form 16. Scrubb if she recalled But Scotland insisted, receiving complaints from there was no Form 16 that polling station about produced for the polling excessive counterfoils, station concerned. pointing out that there were When asked if she 366 ballots but 405 produced any of the counterfoils recorded. Both documents for North numbers ought to have Windward to indicate that corresponded. the number of counterfoils “When that came to your and ballots had in fact attention, did you inquire matched, Findlay-Scrubb
said she did not. He asked if there was a reason she did not do so, and there was a long pause, prompting Scotland to ask: “Madam, are you looking for a reason?” “No, I am trying to recollect,” she said. According to Scotland, the former supervisor of elections signed a witness statement, and she had three years to say to the court, I am assisting the court and here are the forms, to which she agreed. Continued on Page 3.