{"id":21511,"date":"2018-11-06T00:13:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=21511"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:16:43","slug":"ballots-to-be-counted-at-polling-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ballots-to-be-counted-at-polling-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballots To Be Counted At Polling Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Antigua and Barbuda Electroal<\/g> Commission is breaking with tradition and will count ballots at polling stations instead of desiganted<\/g> counting centers.<\/p>

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The effect could be that residents will know the results of the historic referendum much sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transportation of ballots from polling stations to counting centers in previous general elections have resulted in long wait times for results.<\/p>

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Public Relations Officer of the ABEC Elisa Graham says “the presiding officers will be conducting the count in the respective polling stations.”<\/p>

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The presiding officers will then communicate the information to the returning officers and the supervisor of elections will do the final tabulations, according to Graham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will know the results in good timing,” she added.<\/p>

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Antiguans and Barbuda’s will vote in the country’s first ever referendum today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The polls open at 6 a.m and close at 6 p.m.<\/p>

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Voters will get to decide if the Privy Council remains the final court of appeal for the country, or whether the Caribbean Court of Justice will be adopted.<\/p>

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A two-thirds majority is needed to make the switch, based on the constitution.<\/p>\n

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