#JAVOTES2024 | PNP’s Oliver Reid expresses concern about handling of ballots

By: Albert Ferguson

Image caption: People’s National Party’s candidate for the Little London Division in Westmoreland Oliver Reid at the Methodist Church Hall on February 26. - Albert Ferguson photo.

He claimed that this happened because election day workers allegedly did not provide proper guidance to electors. 

“The only situation I have is the folding; that ballots were not done in the proper way. The presiding officer or poll clerk, if that's how they do all the other ballots, they can tell you all who vote JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] or who vote PNP,” Reid told reporters at voting at the Methodist Church Hall.

He said he intervened and demonstrated the correct way to the election day workers how the ballot is to be folded and expressed hoped that they will continue along that path. 

Reid is running against Ian Myles, the candidate for the Jamaica Labour, who resigned from the PNP last July. 

There are 8,458 registered electors in the division.

However, in the 2016 local government election, the PNP polled 1,127 votes to the JLP's 945.