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Newly sworn in Guyana Elections Commissioner (GECOM) Athmaram Mangar was fingered by internal officers for allegedly trying to manipulate votes in the 2006 general and regional elections. According to a source Mangar was then a computer programmer at GECOM when the discovery was made. The source went on to explain that it was very surprising that Mangar was chosen as .Efforts yesterday to contact officials from GECOM proved futile yesterday.Mangar,Atlanta Falcons Jersey, was recently sworn in as a replacement for former PPP/C Commissioner Jaya Devi Manickchand who resigned. As GECOM workload increases in preparation for Local Government elections long overdue,Jack Lambert Steelers Jersey, GECOM has already demarcated the 71 district boundaries and constituencies.Vincent Alexander, a Commissioner of the Guyana Election Commission,Taylor Gabriel Falcons Jersey, back in July, had suggested that there was a deliberate attempt to manipulate the results of the 2011 General and Regional elections. The 2011 elections was a crucial one at which the ruling party,Robert Alford Falcons Jersey, for the first time in 20 years, lost its voting majority in the National Assembly—by one seat.According Alexander, former Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Gocool Boodoo’s action,New England Patriots Jerseys, in his preparation and near flawed declaration of the results of the 2011 elections, giving the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) a parliamentary majority,Lawrence Timmons Steelers Jersey, was no mistake.Immediately after the 2011 elections, Alexander had highlighted a discrepancy in Boodoo’s calculation that had excluded the 25 constituency seats and only taken 40 seats into consideration. Boodoo’s original calculation had given the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) 33 seats with 48.57 percent of votes, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) 26 and Alliance For Change (AFC) six.However,Merril Hoge Steelers Jersey, the “accurate” calculation resulted in the PPP/C being given 32 seats,Dwight Freeney Falcons Jersey, APNU 26 and AFC seven, giving the opposition the majority in parliament.Alexander,Julian Edelman Patriots Jersey, who sits as a Commissioner in representation of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) said that Boodoo was singularly responsible for converting the vote count into seats. |
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