As the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections crawls along it must not be forgotten that what should have been an orderly process with a result within two or three days was obscenely overturned by the Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo when he introduced numbers from a spreadsheet which were pure fiction.
Up to that point, half of the District Four results had been transparently tabulated using the mandatory Statements of Poll (SoPs) and it had apparently become clear to Mr Mingo and conspirators from APNU+AFC and GECOM that the result did not favour the incumbent and some plan had to be put in place to rig.
Her disinterest was repeated when Mr Mingo made a second infamous declaration on the night of March 13 at the GECOM headquarters in Kingston having duplicated the same indignities despite attending on that same day a contempt of court hearing before Chief Justice George in which he was admonished to present the SoPs for full viewing by all parties.
Given her career-long dependence on evidence in making decisions, Ms Singh can easily examine for herself the SoPs, the Statements of Recount and Mr Mingo’s “figures” to determine the truth for herself.
When the properly concluded and recorded recount result is presented to GECOM for final certification, Ms Singh has no recourse to the discredited Mingo tally of March 13.
