Tag: Elections Office
Election queries to be heard behind closed doors
(CNS Elections): Chief Justice Anthony Smellie will hear challenges this week to candidates nominated last month who may not be qualified, but the hearings will be behind closed doors. Supervisor of Elections Wesley Howell has raised questions about the eligibility of three candidates that he wants the courts to decide on. According to the court […]
Four candidates’ qualifications in question
(CNS Elections): The election authorities are understood to be examining questions surrounding at least four candidates in several constituencies who were nominated to run as independent candidates in the May General Election. Supervisor of Elections Wesley Howell said that he could not “reveal the specifics of any challenges at this time” but explained that where […]
Elections Office turns to candidate qualification
(CNS Elections): With 63 people seeking election in May, officials from the Elections Office will now spend the next two days ensuring that all of them are qualified to stand, as several question have been raised around a small number of would-be politicians, officials have confirmed. Following changes to the Elections Law after the issues […]
63 candidates line up for 2017 race to the LA
(CNS Elections): The finally tally after nominations closed Wednesday for the May 2017 General Election was 63 candidates. This included 15 Progressives, eleven running with the Cayman Democratic Party and 37 people declaring themselves as independent candidates, including the current education minister, who has not, contrary to speculation throughout the day, joined the PPM. While […]
Elections Office opens mobile and postal voting
(CNS Elections): Registered voters have until Friday, 12 May, to apply for either a postal vote or a mobile vote and the election’s office is urging people to make their applications as soon as possible. Anyone who is entitled to vote but who will be off-island on polling day, 24 May, can apply for a […]
Error sets back claims and objections hearings
(CNS): Supervisor of Elections Wesley Howell has accepted full responsibility for what was described by his office as “an administrative oversight” that has caused the hearings of claims and objections against the revised list of electors to move to the first week of April. The hearings were scheduled for next week but the magistrate will […]
Officials to receive nominations in all 19 seats
(CNS Elections): Nominations for potential candidates wanting to stand for office in the 24 May General Election must be registered in their single-member constituencies on Nomination Day, 29 March. The Elections Office will receive the candidates with their two nominators between 8am and 3pm in the nineteen locations across all three islands. So far, neither […]
Clock ticking on correcting voter address
(CNS Elections): The deadline for correcting voter list address details is 5:30pm, Monday 20 February. Anyone who sees their name or the name of someone they know on the list of electors with incorrect or bad addresses is urged to contact the Elections Office on 949-8047 or email office@elections.ky immediately to provide the current contact […]
11 days left for voter objections and claims
(CNS Election): People who wish to raise an objection or make a claim about the newly published electoral list have just eleven days to check the new register and contact the Elections Office. Officials are urging all Caymanians who plan to vote in the General Elections on 24 May to check the revised voter details […]
Bodden Town delivers biggest constituencies on new voter list
(CNS Elections): Election officials have now finished the voters’ enumeration exercise and published the revised electors list, which has 21,465 registered voters and is now available for public scrutiny and checking. The new register clearly demonstrates the rapid growth in Bodden Town: the constituency of BT East has the highest number of voters (1,531) and […]
