Voter drive underway as deadline looms
(CNS): The Elections Office is hosting a series of voter registration drives across multiple locations in the lead-up to the voter registration deadline on 15 January. In order to vote on Wednesday 30 April in the General Election and what could be a referendum on cruise facilities, ganja and gambling qualified potential voters need to register by that deadline as required under the election law.
Teams from the election office will be on hand to help eligible but unregistered voters sign on, answer questions, and provide information about the electoral process at supermarkets over the next week as listed below. All eligible Caymanians are encouraged to attend and bring their acknowledgement or Caymanian Status letter or certificate, birth certificate and driver’s license or passport. Alternatively, documents should be stored on a mobile device and ready to be shared with the Elections Office staff.
For more information, please visit the Elections Office website, email office@elections.ky, or call 345-949-8047.
Voter drive schedule
Foster’s Countryside: Thursday 19 December 4:30pm–7:30pm and Saturday 21 December 10am –1pm.
Foster’s Camana Bay: Thursday, 19 December 4pm–7pm
Foster’s Republix: Thursday 19 December 4:30pm–7:30pm and Saturday, 21 December 11am– 2pm
Hurley’s: Wednesday 18 December 4:30pm-7:30pm, Saturday 21 December 10am-1pm and on Saturday, 28 December 10pm–1pm.
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I’m just waiting on my Christmas Beef, Turkey, and Fridge. Hopefully the WBW Santa pulls through. Times are tough.
What about a vote on Sunday trading?
…and dancing and smiling!
Go to Church and worship the Creator.
You can, sing, dance and smile all without the help of drugs or alcohol.
Suppose they had an election and no one voted
To Anonymous 5:41
In truth, a number of people will always vote for self-interest. Then whomever they vote for would get in, leaving the majority worse off. It is always better that we all vote to oust the inept and the corrupt — we just need to know (and agree) who is which.
No thank you, PPM propagandist.
Any students home for holidays should register for a mail ballot.
You can’t vote if you are not registered, but it seems you can register if you are not Caymanian, according to the website.
How so?
Persons who can vote: 1 ((i) is a Caymanian; and…and…and…
Show your work.
Read the Immigration Law definition of who is Caymanian.
Read the Elections Office criteria of evidence required to show you are Caymanian.
They are not the same.
I don’t think the Elections Office criterion for who is a Caymanian (and eligible to register to vote) and that Workforce Opportunities and Residence Cayman (who are legally charged with determining who is Caymanian) are the same.
The result will likely be more non-Caymanians deciding our future.
BS. The Elections Office is required to scrutinize eligibility via WORC records on Board outcomes. It isn’t automatic or subjective. They want to see the Status Letter, the stamp in passport, a Continuation Grant of Status Letter at 18 if a teen, and then disappear into the back with your original backup docs to double check against the WORC computer records. Good luck if you don’t have all of this. They will send you away.
Not according to their website. Being born in Cayman and having a parent or grandparent born in Cayman seems to do the trick. According to the criteria on the website, no formal acknowledgement required.
The website also distinguishes between people who are born Caymanian or have Cayman status, as if they are legally different things. They are not. In fact that Immigration Transition Act confirms that you are not Caymanian UNLESS you have Caymanian status.
And where you are born has determined nothing, as a matter of Cayman law, for more than 50 years (since 27 March 1973).
Carry on.
Stop spreading nonsense. Get your own lazy ass recognized. There was an amnesty a few years back with zero application fee to register “ghost Caymanians”. There is just no excuse anymore to be outside recognition via one of the many laneways. Of course, all of whom are Caymanian, by virtue of those qualifying lanes. Nobody gets registered to vote without that proof.
The elections office website does not appear to require people to have been recognized. Only to have been born in Cayman and to have a parent or grandparent who was born in Cayman. Many people who can satisfy that criteria are not, as a matter of Cayman law, in fact Caymanian. Some of them are “ghosts” – people who believe they are Caymanian or who government believes are Caymanian, but are not.
If one is born in Cayman before March 1977 you are automatically Caymanian.
I lost my status letter in Ivan. I can never register to vote. Immigration told me they don’t keep copies.
But you can work?
You can have a Trade and Business license?
And you could apply for acknowledgement.
“I’ll take ‘Things That Never Happened’ for $500, Alex”
Those who want to vote are registered. I have no intention of registering to vote in this corrupt system. Between them all they have;
Wasted 38 million on a dump deal with zero accountability
Wasting 50 million on a school
Failed to deal with a a woman beater and drunkard
Done nothing for pensioners, increasing their own salaries but expect pensioners to live on $1200 a month
Given a convicted drug dealer a high office position
No matter who you vote for nothing changes.
These same crooks seek to waste more billions of public money on an FCCA seaport that seeks to bring in more of the least-wanted category of tourists to benefit foreign-listed corporations, that adds next to nothing to the local economy, and saddles us with permanent damage, and crippling debt for many generations. You would let them?
No matter what party or name they give themselves it is all the same.
I am convinced that our politicians somehow think that donning a suit and wearing a pin somehow elevates their IQ, even if you once sold drugs to make a living.
So what. Pick better, or do it yourself! The options available doesn’t waiver your right to vote, to organize a petition, or to consult with the MP in your district and voice your position. You can even tell them not to run for office again, because they suck.
And I can tell them my dad is better than theirs too!
I have emailed my MP multiple times. Guess how many responses I got?
To anonymous 1:39 and because they do not answer you give up your voting right? This not a popularity exercise. We vote for us, but more so for the Caymanians to come, so they get a better country. I encourage you to take your place and join us in defending our democracy and our country.
Correction 105 days, even worse!
Why is the deadline 75 days before the election?
What sort of checks take 75 days? Its just a 5 min cross reference with WORC. Nothing more, nothing less.
Legislation outdated by decades. What say you, Governor?
The Registered voter list needs regular +/- edits for new voters, deceased, no-longer resident, incarcerated, and then to be formally Gazetted at set intervals. If there are folks on the district lists that are dead, or in revocation of their residency status to retain Caymanian standing (ie. living overseas for 5+ years), please speak up and have them removed – it’s a not automatic removal. Like most, McKeeva was returned as an MP on a pile of mail-in and mobile ballots, and a margin of just 27 votes in WBW over Mario Ebanks. Mail-in and mobile ballots cast amounted to over 50% of the total ballot count in many districts. If those folks don’t live in Cayman, those facts need to be cross-verified with entry-exit records at Immigration/WORC.
Vote for what exactly? No thanks.
Don’t vote. Also don’t complain when you get a dimwit elected.
People often state that if you don’t vote you somehow lose the right to free speech which is of course absurd. Voting is a choice.
Sure it is, but choosing to be disenfranchised is the choice of a moron. Later, complaining about that same outcome is doubly moronic.
Do you need some dressing with that word salad?
Or a destructive cruise port and 2-3 generations of additional debt.
It’s the same result regardless!
irregardless!
No such word, in the context of “looser” meaning “one who loses”!
To Anonymous 5:31
As I explained to Anonymous 5:41, a number of people will always vote for self-interest, greed, ignorance, whatever. If us, the honest voters, don’t vote, then whomever that group votes for would get in, which would then leave the majority of us worse off. Please do not be part of the problem.