GECOM can replace lost, incorrect ID cards
Stabroek News
February 1, 2004
Were you registered for the 2001 General Elections but never received your National Identification Card?
Then you need to call the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM), which says it has uncollected cards.
GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, at a press conference on Friday, said the commission would also be replacing lost cards and those with wrong information.
The commission has also been bombarded by requests for new ID cards as more people reach the age to vote.
Surujbally said while the commission was capable of issuing cards, people for whom cards were never issued would have to wait for a new registration exercise. "That is why we are pushing for continuous registration."
GECOM is preparing for continuous registration which would update the current electors' database to include new voters and purge the names of people no longer eligible by reason of death or migration.
The current registration process is periodical and coincides with the holding of elections. Surujbally said the continuous registration would be decentralised and conducted throughout the country, although GECOM central in Georgetown would administrate to ensure the integrity of the process.
Surujbally noted that all the national political parties had, in principle, accepted the concept of continuous registration. He said once the legal aspects were addressed, the process should be fully endorsed.