Elections & Boundaries bending over backwards for Lee Mark

Alberto August

Lee Mark Chang

Belize City, February 1, 2012

For a long time now, the UDP has laid bare for all to see that it is hell bent on winning the next General Elections “by any means necessary”.  Evidence of this fact can be found in the recent mass naturalization/registration of Central American immigrants, photos of a UDP San Pedro Town Councillor Candidate caught “in flagrante delictio” inside of the registration office meddling with the voter database, and the blatant denial by no other than the Chief Elections Officer for a PUP Standard Bearer to peruse the elector binder for his constituency.  With General Elections now scheduled to coincide with the March 7 National Municipal Elections, some thirty-four (34) days away, the UDPs are growing more and more desperate.

We, at the BELIZE TIMES, have been reliably informed that there has been an abrupt and unexplained change in the polling stations for the Freetown Constituency.  In previous elections, both General and Municipal, the voters of Freetown had voted at either of three polling stations, namely, the YWCA, Central Christian School and All Saints Primary School given the respective polling areas in which they reside.  As we understand it, the Election & Boundaries Dept. has now designated the Belize City Institute for Technical Vocational & Educational Training (ITVET) as the newest Freetown polling station in the March 7, 2012 General/Municipal Elections.  Now, a lot of people are aware that the Belize City ITVET is located on Freetown Road.  What a lot of people may not know, however, is that the ITVET falls not within the Freetown Constituency but rather the Pickstock Constituency. Unlike a lot of other people, though, the “operatives” at the Elections & Boundaries Dept. know this all too well. Thus, the question must be asked: Why?  No doubt, this latest election ploy enjoys the full blessing of the corrupt UDP Chairman of the Elections & Boundaries Commission, Alberto August.

When we consider the proximity of the ITVET to the business establishment of the UDP Freetown Standard Bearer, Lee Mark Chang, indeed, only a stone’s throw away, we are left to conclude that the “move” is intended to give Chang some sort of “unfair advantage” over his opponent, the incumbent Area Representative for Freetown and PUP Party Leader, Hon. Francis Fonseca.

It’s no secret that the “Ching Chong Chineyman” is scared shitless of Francis Fonseca and has been carrying out desperate acts after desperate acts ever since he was installed as the UDP Standard Bearer for Freetown.  This time around, though, he is being aided & abetted by the very people who are charged with ensuring that the upcoming elections are “free & fair”.

We have no doubt that come March 7, 2012, Hon. Francis will blow Lee Mark Chang to smithereens. Treacherous acts, such as this latest political machination by the UDP must, however, be strongly and loudly condemned. We call on the Elections & Boundaries Commission and the Chief Elections Officer to immediately halt this change of polling station in the Freetown Constituency. To borrow from the words of the soon-to-be former Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Oliver Barrow, it “stinks to high heaven”.

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