GECOM was and is in possession of information on impersonation of absent voters

Dear Editor,

On Friday, July 18, 2020 I penned a letter, factual in its content, in relation to the under-informed pronouncements of the American Ambassador and Prime Minister Mottley, in relation to evidenced fraudulent voting in the 2020 elections. Guyana Times, on Saturday, July 19, did not carry my letter but facilitated a response by Commissioner Gunraj under the misleading caption: `Berating, abusing messengers do not change the facts’. Not carrying my letter and the caption do not surprise me. But it tells one story to the incisive minds and another to the blindfolded followers. Hereafter, I am addressing the incisive minds.

Gunraj in his letter seeks to tell me what I should be writing. This speaks volumes of the attempt to muzzle me and to monopolize what is disclosed to the public. It also reeks of contempt and an attempt to trample on my freedom of expression, which in his typical arrogance he refers to as “dog whistling”.

I simply, in my letter, disclosed that GECOM, I never said the Chair, had information (death certificates) on the dead who had voted and that that information would not have been availed to the CARICOM team, which reported that there was no evidence of the allegation that the dead voted, hence the under-informed pronouncements, which referenced the report. I also said that the Chair in a meeting acknowledged that GECOM was in possession of such death certificates. I will now further say that GECOM was and is in possession of information on impersonation of absent voters and that that information, seemingly, was also not disclosed to the CARICOM team. What I have said here is irrefutable. Unlike Gunraj, I make no attempt to draw conclusions for the readers. If he wants to highlight Mingo and his view on Mingo, he is free to do so. That has nothing to do with my right to keep the public informed with facts.

Gunraj can jump high, jump low. His attempt to obscure the facts as misinformation only exposes his mischief and alerts the incisive minds and the seekers of truth.

Yours faithfully,

Vincent Alexander

a 2004 interview, mentioning Selma and a 1961 mob beating at a bus station in Montgomery, Alabama. “I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of non-violence.”

Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, awarded Lewis the presidential medal of freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, in 2011.

“Generations from now, when parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind - an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time, whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now,” Obama said a White House ceremony.

Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama, when Blacks faced segregation in all public facilities and were effectively barred from voting in the U.S.

South - where Black slavery ended only due to the 1861-1865 Civil War - thanks to the notorious “Jim Crow” laws.

‘I FELT SO FREE’

Lewis plunged into the civil rights movement as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, where he organized the sitins at segregated lunch counters.

“The Nashville sit-ins became the first mass arrest in the sit-in movement, and I was taken to jail,” Lewis said.

“I’ll tell you, I felt so liberated. I felt so free. I felt like I had crossed over. I thinkI said to myself, ‘What else can you do to me? You beat me. You harassed me. Now you have placed me under arrest. You put us in jail. What’s left? You can kill us?’”

The “Bloody Sunday” attack took place when segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace directed police to use night sticks and tear gas to stop the peaceful march for voting rights led by Lewis and others.