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Friday, April 4, 2025

Voters being turned away in Central

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Shastri Boodan
1949 days ago
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Indarsingh- Couva South MP Rudy Indarsingh, front, takes a phone call, candidate for California Point Lisas Ramchand Rajbal Maraj , right, seated in the back of a Prado as they move about the Couva electoral district.

Indarsingh- Couva South MP Rudy Indarsingh, front, takes a phone call, candidate for California Point Lisas Ramchand Rajbal Maraj , right, seated in the back of a Prado as they move about the Couva electoral district.

Shastri Boodan

More than a dozen vot­ers with poll cards were turned away from the polls on Mon­day in the mar­gin­al elec­toral dis­trict of Cal­i­for­nia-Point Lisas when they went to cast bal­lots at the Cou­va East Sec­ondary School.

Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh said he got sev­er­al calls ear­li­er of a num­ber of elec­tion dis­crep­an­cies.

In­dars­ingh said a woman in pos­ses­sion of a poll card was told that her name was not on the list. He said the woman in­sist­ed that they look for her name on the binder un­til she was al­lowed to vote.

He said the po­lice and the EBC seem to have been work­ing with their own agen­da and their in­ter­op­er­a­tion of the rules as to where the mock sta­tions should be.

In­dars­ingh said there was a high lev­el of in­con­ti­nence.

Can­di­date Ram­c­hand Ra­jbal Maraj said com­plaints are com­ing from elec­tors that re­turn­ing of­fi­cers are mak­ing life hard for elec­tors and turn­ing them away from the sta­tions.

He said in some cas­es per­sons have been vot­ing at these sta­tions for sev­er­al years.

Ryan Ram­per­sad, one of the can­di­dates for Long­denville Todds Road on the CT­TRC said there was a steady flow of vot­ers with a high­er than usu­al num­ber of young peo­ple ex­er­cis­ing their rights to vote.


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