Excitement turns to anguish for some first-time voters
From 3A
left to question why I voted initially,” she said.
Mark Wong expressed disgust at the extended period of time that the country has gone without a newly sworn in government after the dissolution of Parliament. “It is ridiculous”, Wong maintained, “Months have passed without us…having an [actual] President,” he said.
Because of this experience, the 19 year-old fashion designer is not too positive about ever voting again. “I don’t think I want to ever go through this ridiculousness again”, he said, while citing the ethnic tensions in Guyana during the elections period as one of the contributing factors. “It affected me in a negative way [so] I wish to never vote again”, he stated.
Aniyah Jardine, a recent graduate of the Betram Collins College of Public Service, has expressed the strain the prolonged recount process has put on her as a member of the public sector. “Personally, I feel as if the recount process is taking way too much time and because of this it is slowing up the progress of the country. I am a public servant and I have not been able to complete my duties ever since the recount began”, she explained.
Jardine, however, expressed her view that a situation like this should never take away a person’s will to be a part of the electoral process. “There will never be a time when I will not vote because that is my right and I feel like I should support whoever I see fit to run the country,” she commented.