Voters urged to check the register
(CNS): The Revised Register of Electors was published by the Elections Office on Wednesday and is open to public review for the next 21 days to enable voters to submit claims and objections, including those whose names have been wrongly removed or stated incorrectly in the revised list.
With a surge in the number of voters ahead of the election, Supervisor of Elections Wesley Howell said the district registering officers and the Elections Office team had worked hard to process all the applications.
He said they were “were fantastic as they delivered an efficient and professional service, answering countless telephone calls and assisting hundreds of persons with the important step of registering to vote”.
This was especially true on the last day for voter registration, 20 January. Howell said, “when a total of 506 new voter application forms and 256 change of details forms were received, 392 of which were delivered in person. I am very thankful to work with these outstanding public servants.”
The Revised List is available on the Elections Office website, where there is also contact information for each district’s registering officer.
People can submit a claim if their name appears on the current register, or if they registered to vote on or before 20 January 2021, and their name has been wrongly removed or stated incorrectly in the revised list. The claim should be submitted in writing, using Form 7, to their Electoral District’s Registering Officer.
Any registered voter may object to a name appearing on the revised list if there is a reasonable belief that the person is not entitled to be registered in that Electoral District. The objection should be submitted in writing, including the grounds for the objection using Form 9 to the Registering Officer of the Electoral District.
During the December 2020 claims and objections hearings, the Revising Officer took into consideration COVID-19 related travel difficulties as well as the precedence set by the Grand Court in relation to extended absences from the islands. Anyone who receives an objection, particularly related to a person’s absence from the Cayman Islands for more than two years out of the last four years immediately preceding 20 January 2021, is encouraged to submit claims using Form 7 outlining their reason for this.
Contact information for each district’s Registering Officer is available here.
Should a Registering Officer object to an individual appearing on list, a copy of the notice will be delivered to that individual or sent by registered mail to their last known postal address.
The period for claims and objections submissions closes on Thursday, 25 February, after which, the list of all claims and objections will be published on Thursday, 4 March, and will be available for review until Friday, 19 March.
Hearings of claims and objections by the Revising Officer (Chief Magistrate) will be held between Monday, 22 and Friday, 26 March.
On the conclusion of these hearings, the rulings of the Revising Officer will be applied to the Revised List to form the Official List of Electors. This list will come into effect on 1 April 2021 and will be the list used for the next General Election, which is to be held on 26 May.
Category: Election News
The Constitution Order Section 91 does not disqualify those no longer resident in the jurisdiction, in some cases, with no ties, and absent for decades. Anyone that was on the list pre-2009 is grandfathered. There is no ongoing residency requirement beyond the initial date and qualification for registration, and voters are included on the list for whatever district and address they last resided at. You can even be serving a criminal sentence in another country (as many Caymanian voters are) and mail in your ballot. Don’t think for a minute that the two Parties don’t have detailed Immigration data, mailing and call lists of who these people are and where they can be contacted now.
Who can vote: https://portal.elections.ky/index.php/home/vote
Nowhere does that state pre-2009 registered voters are grandfathered in. It has been my personal experience, as well as many others that I know, that you are removed once you move away. I was removed back in the 90s and wasn’t even notified of my removal.
Plenty overseas residents still on there. Even more registered in a fake district. Check it twice and you’ll find out who’s naughty and who’s nice.
Some of the names haven’t lived in Cayman, or had any links, or property for decades. Although those dear Caymanians may be honest people, many of those in office are not and shouldn’t be trusted not to forge fraudulent mail-in’s. PPM candidates all had a suspiciously large margin of mail-in ballot counts last election, and in some cases, that’s what made the difference.
Yep!!! Seeing people that moved away YEARS ago (even more than a decade ago!) still on there! Also seeing people showing up in districts that were wrong from the LAST election!
Why is address verification not a part of the process for every election? There should be a team of officers that go to each home to verify who lives at that address.