Ear­ly vot­ers in San Juan/Barataria say they faced lengthy wait times be­fore cast­ing their bal­lots on Mon­day morn­ing, ei­ther be­cause of long lines or an un­usu­al­ly longer vot­er process at some polling sta­tions

"A lot of peo­ple come and it will have con­ges­tion.

"It is not as fast as I think it should have been. Last (time) it was faster. It need­ed to move a lit­tle faster. My sta­tion didn't have a lot of peo­ple so I out a lit­tle quick­er," said a vot­er named Sookhai who cast his bal­lot at the Febeau Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School around 6.20 am.

The Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment can­di­date for St Ann's East, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly and her fam­i­ly ar­rived at the school at 5.55 am to vote in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion. She came out with her stained fin­ger at 6.45 am.

She ex­plained her wait time was due to the large num­ber of peo­ple with her.

She said, "As we see when I vote I don't vote alone. It's a fam­i­ly of about 12 strong and we come down ear­ly, every elec­tion morn­ing, we come down ear­ly, we aim for six and we vote."

While Gads­by-Dol­ly was cast­ing her vote, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date for San Juan/Barataria Sad­dam Ho­sein vis­it­ed the polling sta­tion.

He ex­plained that he was large­ly pleased with the ear­ly turnout of vot­ers at the sta­tions he vis­it­ed.

"This morn­ing, what I have done is I start­ed to rove around the con­stituen­cy to make sure every­thing is in or­der. I have seen some of the polling sta­tions, there are lines al­ready which is a good thing, it means that per­sons are ex­pect­ed and are an­tic­i­pat­ing to vote. We en­cour­age every­one to ex­er­cise their fran­chise," Ho­sein said.