“2017 General Election process ‘corrupted” – EyeWitness News

Excerpt from this article; “NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Former House Speaker Dr. Kendal Major has called into question the voter turnout of the 2017 General Election, claiming he has ‘credible evidence’ people were paid to stay home.

Major called the electoral process ‘corrupted’ during a Progressive Young Liberals youth meeting on Friday.

He was responding to a question on the decline in voter turnout over the past three elections.

‘I have credible evidence that persons were paid to stay home and so what has happened in our elections is it has been corrupted, truly corrupted,’ Major said.

‘And I am not saying this to point a finger, I am saying the process has been corrupted.  And one of the things the PLP outh to do is legislate campaign finance reform, in the first order, at the first opportunity.”

This seems to verify my point which I always make as it pertains to the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), which is ‘there is PLP fact and then there is reality, the two cannot be assimilated.’  Here PLP facts state that the only logical reason for them to have lost the last election is/was because ‘someone’ paid people to stay away from the polls; whiles reality shows that with each election voter numbers have been falling off.

“According to statistics from, the Parliamentary Registration Department (PRD), 88 percent of the 181,000 registered voters in The Bahamas cast ballots during the General Elections compared to the 90 percent voter turnout in 2012 elections and the 92 percent turnout during the 2007 elections.”

This statistical evidence shows a downward trend in voter turnout and registration but to attribute it to people being paid to stay away from the polls and not voter frustration to explain the PLP lost is PLP logic, which does not align with realty and logic.

I mean, if you are paying, why not just pay the people to vote for you?

The truth of the matter is this, people are becoming tired of the electoral system and as they would put it, “they keep getting the same thing”.  Now as for if this is actually the case is up for debate and will always be open to debate but the fact that the former speaker of the house and former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Member of Parliament for Garden Hills. Would actually thinks and believes persons were paid to say away from the polls is ludicrous and bordering on delusional.

So I ask Mr. Major to present his “credible evidence” because without it this just seems as a way for him to make himself relevant ahead of the 2022 General Elections.

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