Pollsters impersonate elections officials for surveys

| 29/01/2025 | 21 Comments
Cayman News Service

(CNS): After multiple reports of political pollsters conducting surveys in various districts falsely claiming to be Elections Office officials, the office has warned that it is an offence to impersonate any public official. The public is reminded that canvassing or surveying for information about voting preferences is not illegal, but falsely claiming to be from the Elections Office or misrepresenting oneself as a government official is.

The Elections Office is not conducting door-to-door surveys for the elections, and when it does conduct surveys, its staff members are always identifiable by their official identification badges and uniforms.

Elections Supervisor Wesley Howell said the pollsters were asking voters whether they would be voting along party lines or for independents, what their top issues of concern are and general demographic questions.

“The survey questions themselves are not problematic for our office, as persons can choose to answer or not,” Howell told CNS. “We are, however, very concerned that persons conducting the survey are indicating that they are Elections Office staff, which is illegal.”


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Category: 2025 General Elections, Elections, Politics

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Clown Show continues on Brac.

    Yesterday morning, just a simple act of going to Tibbetts Enterprises – being harassed by political candidate Dan Scott and supporter of his Annie Rose Scott – giving out t shirts from the back of his vehicle – harassing customers like me.

    Give it a break Dan. You made your money in Grand Cayman. You never created any back office jobs related to the industry you were in. You now claim to be a Brac resident – why don’t you run for a seat in Cayman??

    Ah, I know, you can sponsor events, hold functions and buy your votes – only need a couple hundred from those in Cayman Brac East.

    Public shoutout to prior candidate, life long Brac resident,
    Mr. Elvis McKeever. Good Sir why don’t you run again – dont let a Cayman refugee come here and take a seat in your district.

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    • Anonymous says:

      You are seriously suggesting that you would rather be represented by an incoherent weed lover than an educated experienced professional that has a proven record of integrity and contribution to his community..?
      With that sort of thinking Cayman is doomed.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Here we see a child thats been left behind. lmao no one with sense would fix their fingers to type this nonsense. you really call them a cayman refugee when you have an fool taking all the money to build a school there and brac being left 40 years in the past. lol yeah no wonder cayman is in the trenches it is with mindsets like this

  2. ANON says:

    Strange though that not one of them has proof. Not even a ring video or photo from their phone.

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  3. Anonymous says:

    CINP CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEERS HAVE TSHIRTS AND NAME TAGS WITH PICTURES AROUND THERE NECK there survey sheet has the party names SO GO SIT DOWN WITH YOUR LIES AND SCARE MONGERS TRICKS COWARD KENNETH
    KENNETH BRYAN IS JUST AFRAID BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE HAS LOST TOUCH WITH HIS GTC PEOPLE AND CARMEN MCFIELD IS GAINING SUPPORT IN MASSIVE WAVES WITH THE PEOPLE SHE LOVE AND GENUINELY CARE FOR SO WATCH OUT KENNETH WE COMING FOR YOUR SEAT ONE ❌at a time. NEWS FLASH Every survey I do people are wanting change FROM ALL THOSE MIXED UP FAIL PARTY VOTE ALL 19 out

    CNS: Please don’t comment with the caps lock left on. I usually delete such comments, regardless of content.

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  4. Anonymous says:

    Here is some information for their poll.

    I live and vote in GTC. I will never vote for Kenneth Bryan. You have my word.

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  5. Anonymous says:

    Headline soon to come “Pollsters mauled by big dog”

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  6. The Secretary to the Ambassador of Absurdistan says:

    Official Correspondence to His Excellency, the Ambassador of Absurdistan (Jamaica)

    Re: A Commendation of Excellence in the Art of Democratic Dismantling

    Your Excellency,

    I write to you today with nothing short of awe and admiration for the sheer brilliance, bravery, and unwavering dedication of your esteemed services in sapping the processes and trust in democracy of the Cayman Islands.

    It is not often that one witnesses such an exquisite display of political sabotage executed with such surgical precision—a masterpiece of governance by erosion rather than action.

    The strategic excellence of your leadership in ensuring the disenfranchisement of a large portion of the electorate is nothing short of Absurdistani perfection.

    The volume and quality of misinformation, the artful suppression of voter participation, the garrison-style politics, the backroom dealings, and the omnipresent specter of corruption—all of it is executed with a level of finesse that rivals the most time-honored traditions of your homeland.

    Your commitment to:

    • Runaway cost of living that ensures the electorate is too busy surviving to scrutinize leadership

    • Fiscal irresponsibility of such grandeur that even the numbers themselves weep in confusion

    • Dead-on-arrival programs that consume endless resources but produce nothing but empty headlines

    • Infrastructure projects that exist only as fantastical sketches, destined never to see the light of reality

    …is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

    A Takeover Without a Single Bullet Fired

    Who, indeed, needs an armed invasion when the very guardrails of governance can be disassembled from within? While lesser minds waste resources on war, you and your operatives have proven that a nation can be conquered with bureaucracy, incompetence, and a sustained campaign of reality distortion. The Cayman Islands may still fly its own flag, but the spirit of Absurdistan reigns supreme.

    The sheer mastery with which your Absurdistani collective has sown confusion, apathy, and disenfranchisement in our governance would be difficult for even the most esteemed institutions of Absurdistan to rival.

    It is a model that should be studied, analyzed, and perhaps enshrined in the archives of Absurdistani statecraft as the gold standard in peaceful political conquest.

    A Standing Ovation from Absurdistan’s Disciples

    Let it be known that the people of the Cayman Islands, knowingly or not, now bear witness to a political landscape molded in your image—a landscape where:

    • Democracy is an illusion, upheld only by tradition and a few well-placed press releases.

    • The civil service functions not to serve, but to perpetuate its own inefficiencies.

    • The public’s faith in governance is so eroded that, eventually, no one will bother resisting at all.

    Your Excellency, I raise my pen in salute to your unparalleled contributions to the cause of democratic dysfunction! You are, without question, a statesman of unparalleled ingenuity, a master of bureaucratic conquest, and an unrivaled patron of Absurdistani excellence.

    With boundless admiration and deepest respect,

    Your loyal Envoy to the consulate of Absurdistan
    Scholar of Political Nonsense, Diplomat of Dysfunction, and Chronicler of the Great Electoral Farce

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  7. Cheese Face says:

    Cola Kenny’s video on this is comedy gold.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    and this is the level we’re at. The clown show may have a new big top soon, but it’ll be the same show.

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  9. Anonymous says:

    A certain new party is also telling people that their candidate for GTS is being supported by the current MP.

    All sorts of confusion tactics are being used to confuse voters into voting for them.

    Stay alert folks. These “New” parties are not so genuine and are out for nothing but power!!

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  10. Anonymous says:

    Wes. Enforce the laws. All of them.

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  11. Anonymous says:

    Makes sense, the candidate complying is a fraud and the Elections Office refuses to enforce the laws relating to campaign signage.

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  12. Anonymous says:

    Nobody will be surprised at which party is finding these “disposable” impersonators.

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