The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) may soon move to seek legal advice on recent approaches made by the Alliance For Change (AFC) and Opposition Leader Robert Corbin, which pointed to errors in the tabulation of the declared results.

Sources close to GECOM stated that the Commission wants to know if there are any legal provisions to allow for a revision of the declared results, and if errors were recognised in the tabulation, whether GECOM could interfere with the seat allocation in Parliament, given that the results have been gazetted.

Sources further stated that the Commission may also seek legal advice on whether it could respond to the allegations, since elections petitions have been filed challenging the declared results.

Kaieteur News understands that the Commission met on Tuesday, but could not decide on a way forward in addressing the issues raised by the AFC and Corbin.

This is not the first time that the Commission has sought the intervention of legal luminaries to solve contentious issues.

In the lead-up to the August 28 polls, GECOM sought legal advice on the issue of whether or not a registered voter had to be a resident in Guyana before being allowed to vote.

The legal minds GECOM had turned to on that occasion were Senior Counsel Ashton Chase and Attorney General, Senior Counsel Doodnauth Singh.

The AFC, last Friday, caused an election petition to be filed in the High Court, challenging the elections results, and is now seeking a court ruling that the party won a sixth Parliamentary seat from the Region 10 constituency seat, which the ruling People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is said to be holding as a result of tabulation errors.

Corbin on Friday wrote Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Dr. Steve Surujbally, pointing out that the errors made during the tabulation of the votes also cost the Justice For All Party (JFAP) a seat in Parliament.

Corbin, in his letter, added that the JFAP gained the seat at the expense of the AFC, which could see the party retaining its five seats, even if it gets the Region 10 seat.

The only official seat allocation in the 65-member Parliament announced by GECOM suggest that the PPP/C won 36 seats, PNCR-1G, 22 seats; AFC, 5 seats; GAP/ROAR and TUF, one seat each.

Corbin's approach to GECOM is based on the tabulation produced by former GECOM Commissioner Haslyn Parris, who derived his findings from a Compact Disc (CD), which contained the scanned Statements of Polls provided by GECOM.

Chief Elections Officer Gocool Boodhoo has been tasked with investigating the AFC's claim, and sources indicated that discussions were held with elections officials from Region 10 at GECOM's Headquarters in High Street.

Kaieteur News understands that the Region 10 officials were adamant that the procedures were followed in arriving at the results, which were subsequently declared as the official results.