The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Friday said it will begin a Claims and Objections exercise on Tuesday, January 2, 2024, to give persons not yet registered the opportunity to do so and for the names of persons who should not be on the list to be removed.
Registration ultimately leads to the preparation of a voter’s list for elections, or what is called the Official List of Elections (OLE).
The list that currently exists is called the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE); this has been posted at prominent locations in all the Registration Divisions / Sub-Divisions, at all the GECOM Permanent Registration Offices countrywide and on the Commission’s website at https://gecom.org.gy/public/home/lists.
During the Claims and Objections exercise, any person 18 years and older can be registered. Those eligible are Guyanese citizens by birth, descent, naturalization or registration, or is a citizen from a Commonwealth country living in Guyana for one year or more.
To be registered, a person must visit a GECOM office in their area and walk with source documents such as an original birth certificate, valid passport, adoption certificate, Form F or Naturalization Certificate / Certificate of Registration.
Those who are already registered do not need to register again but they can still check the PLE to make sure their details are correct. If it is not, they can visit the GECOM office to make the necessary corrections.
If a person has changed their name, such as by marriage or deed poll, would need to make the necessary corrections and walk with the relevant documents.
This exercise ends on January 15, 2024.
If you check the list and see the name of a person who should not be there, such as a person you know has died, you can make an objection to the Registration Officer. You have until January 22, 2024 to make any objections.
Objections can be made by individuals or by accredited scrutineers of political parties, provided that any such scrutineer has monitoring responsibility for the registration area in which the person being objected to is listed.
The relevant original document(s) such as an original Death Certificate must be presented at the time of the hearing of objections to support the basis upon which the objection is made.
The Commission is urging all eligible Electors to use this opportunity to get registered for inclusion in the OLE and for existing registrants to check the PLE to ensure that their particulars as stated in the PLE is accurate.
Persons are also encouraged to object to the inclusion of the name of any person who they believe do not meet the eligibility criteria to be in the list.
Registration transactions will be facilitated Monday – Friday from 8:00hrs – 18:00hrs and Saturday and
Sunday from 10:00hrs – 14:00hrs. For more information and details on the location of the respective
offices, persons can visit GECOM’s website at www.gecom.org.gy or call 225-0277-9 / 223-9653.
