101 Cayo North Voter Transfers Ordered to Remain in Previous Constituencies

Last month, we reported on allegations of election fraud made by U.D.P. standard bearer for Cayo North, Omar Figueroa. He claims that over a hundred voter registrations during the transfer period are fraudulent, citing unspecified and overcrowded home addresses as key indicators. On Tuesday and earlier today, Figueroa and the magistrate visited several of these addresses to investigate. After today’s hearing, the magistrate decided that the matter will be forwarded to the High Court, with no determination made yet. For now, all one hundred and one voter transfers will remain in their original constituencies until a final decision is reached. We caught up with Figueroa before today’s verdict for more details.

 

Omar Figueroa, UDP Standard Bearer, Cayo North

 “We’re hoping it is the last day. It’s been going on for, I think this is probably the fifth session,  but we’re covering a lot of grounds and we’re making a lot of progress. The last session we had, the magistrate went to visit three of the landlords. Unfortunately, none of the landlords were home and none of the the persons that we were objecting to were home. It was a total of forty-six persons at three different houses. The magistrate was not able to speak to anyone other than some of the neighbors. We are feeling very confident that the reasons for objections are valid. We believe that in fact the cases are fraudulent registrations. It is our hope that at the end of the day the magistrate will weigh all the evidence that is before her. In cases like this, at times it’s hard to prove that someone doesn’t live at the house when the landlord is saying they live at the house. And then there’s a refusal from the landlords to show up to court. And obviously we feel like. They were evading us yesterday, but  we will see what happens today. Today, we have the last testimony the final two houses that we are objecting to. One of them, by the way yesterday, was one of the one bedroom starter homes that the government really recently issued. Two of those are actually on the table here. Two of those have been used for these registrations. You guys know as well as I do, how many people can comfortably fit in those houses. “