SI Magistrate Court Hears UDP Voters Fraud Claims

The San Ignacio Magistrates Court is hearing voters registration objections submitted by the United Democratic Party’s Cayo North Standard Bearer Omar Figueroa. The U.D.P. submitted one hundred and one objections. Today, three individuals took the stand to testify on behalf of the U.D.P. The sitting Magistrate also visited three of the locations under question. Twenty-eight voters are said to be registered at one of the locations. However, at the time of the visits, none of the landlords or the persons that claim to be registered at these locations were there. The hearing was adjourned for tomorrow morning, where one final testimony will be heard before the court decides. Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, spoke on the issue today.

 

Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“When you look at the issue with Dr. Omar Figueroa in Cayo North where there are a hundred people living in one place.  I know that the media paid keen attention and had significant interest in me transferring to my residence in Mesopotamia and I was the only person to transfer to that address in the last transfer period last year.  There has been a total of ten people that transferred over an eight-year, seven-year period.  The media paid very, very keen interest to that, but I invite you guys to pay interest to a hundred people during this transfer period registering at one house, if my numbers serve me correct.  A significant amount, if it’s not the hundred, it’s fifty.  It’s significant amount that cannot fit in the two-bedroom bungalow that they are claiming to reside.  And you merge that, so that’s a form of electoral fraud, and you merge that with the nationality documents, the decentralization of the nationality documents which instinctively you’d be alarmed that you’d take the most important document, again, we’re talking about elections, we have to put it in the context of elections.  People that vote decide who the area representatives are going to be, the people that vote decide what constitutional amendments will happen based on the government that they elect.”