UPP expresses dissatisfaction with ABEC’s unacceptable voter card-replacement process

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UPP expresses dissatisfaction with ABEC’s unacceptablevoter card-replacement process

Four days into the voter card-replacement drive by the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission (ABEC), the Leadership andExecutive of the United Progressive Party (UPP) are expressing deep dissatisfaction with the implementation of this importantprocess.

In a press statement issued today, August 15, the Commission admitted that thirteen (13) of its seventeen (17) Registration Units are affected by “technical connectivity issues” and that only 702 persons have been able to complete the application process to date.

Given that ABEC had several months’ lead time ahead of the announced start date of August 12, the UPP believes the Commission ought to have been fully prepared – including the execution of comprehensive test-runs of the system – for this exercise.

Therefore, it is unacceptable that only four of its Units are functional.  This not only delays thousands of voters and new registrants from receiving their cards but, in itself, serves as a disincentive to persons who were eager to participate in the democratic process.

“ABEC is making a mockery of itself and the voting public,” says UPP Political Leader Jamale Pringle.  “After all the discussions among the political parties and the changes of heart regarding a re-registration exercise, my colleagues and Iexpected the Commission to be ready to roll out across both islands on Monday.  We actively urged our supporters to go out in their numbers and update their cards – and, now, this,” he says.  

“The UPP is very disappointed, and we are calling on the Chairman of ABEC, Ambassador Arthur Thomas, to come to the public and explain this new let-down,” Pringle concludes.

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5 COMMENTS

  2. We are DISAPPOINTING in you. GISEL Isaac took off the leash . Therefore you are out chatting CRAP as usual. Why Pringle don’t get off the scene. This Guy is shameful.

  3. look at this BABBLING IDIOT!!!! Man Cow control you like her little black puppy lapping up milk out a rusty saucepan. richard working to undermine you and leave multiple stab wounds in your back, while u chatting shit about abec……go on fool yourself!

    You refuse to meet with the elitist team to help pung some sense in ya empty skull! and it shows!

  4. What doesn’t the UPP express dissatisfaction with? Always unhappy, always grumbling, always moaning. They should rename it the United Pessimistic Party. One thing after another, day after day, it’s all so predictable.

    Pringle’s recent comments are nothing but a desperate plea for attention while also trying to distract the ongoing civil war in the party that he comically leads.

  5. Mr. Pringle is just saying what he has been programmed to say. He does not have a mind of his own. He doesn’t even get to choose what tie to wear with his shirt. She controls his image, his mind, his look.

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