By DARREN BAHAW

THE Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) yesterday announced that out of the 2,188 objections filed against voters in four marginal constituencies, only 218 were valid.

The announcement followed a historic two-and-a-half hour meeting with representatives of five political parties—the People’s National Movement, the United National Congress, Citizens Alliance, the National Alliance for Reconstruction, and the Democratic Party of Trinidad and Tobago, at Hilton Trinidad.

Following investigations, the EBC dismissed all the objections filed against persons in the constituencies of San Juan/Barataria and San Fernando West.

But the EBC struck off 165 voters for the Ortoire/Mayaro constituency and 53 in Tunapuna.

However, EBC commissioner Mark Ramkerrysingh said despite the findings, the commission was going to allow those persons struck off the list another opportunity to challenge their objections.

“What we did was provide to the political parties a list of the names (of persons) whose registrations are cancelled pursuant to the investigation,” he said.

“There is a process whereby they can re-instate the registration of someone who may have been cancelled if they can show that (the person) was actually living at the address shown,” Ramkerrysingh said.

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