Boots Says Elections & Boundaries Could’ve Verified Questionable Signatures

According to Martinez, if the Elections and Boundaries Department were unsure of the signatures that were garnered, checks could have been made by the registering officers to validate the signatures that were presented.

 

Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, Former Area Representative

“I don’t know if Elections and Boundaries mi believe that at the end of the day that by not following the law, eena my view, that yoh couldn’t challenge what they did.  And to date now, we have gotten over a hundred and twenty signed affidavits, by the people who signed the petition.  And wah next thing I need to point out, nothing in the law, the title remains the same: signature or sign includes any mark of thumb impression.  And nothing in the law stuck, Elections and Boundaries, to verify, nothing in the law even speaks to that the signature must be verified by what you have in record.  Yes, I believe that could help tremendously, but the law speaks about verification because you have the capability, you have the registration officer and the registration officer who knows the constituency and knows the people in the constituency.  Hell mein, if you figure or you believe that both things under the law, you have a right to protect the people against forgery.  If you believe that bwai, Mr. Boots or anybody got people di sign dehn petition and dehn people noh sign, there is penalty for that mein.”