Elections & Boundaries Outlines Elections Procedures in Corozal for March 3rd!

As viewers prepare for the Municipal Elections countrywide on March third, electors in Corozal Bay will also be casting their ballots in the division’s by-election.  Chief Elections Officer, Josephine Tamai explains where those electors can go to cast both ballots, and how the Elections and Boundaries Department will ensure no one is double dipping in the ink, or voting where they are not eligible.

Josephine Tamai

Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer

“For Corozal Bay, we have polling area thirty-nine and polling area forty. Those are the polling areas that will be having double elections. So, we have a total of eighteen polling stations for those areas. Counting for Corozal Bay will be at the St. Francis Xavier RC School. When it comes to the municipal election now, we have counting at the Corozal Community College. So, all persons who is a registered elector for Corozal Bay, those persons are registered to vote in the municipal elections. Those persons will join one line, so when you reach the polling station, there will be one line and when you are in the line, those persons will first vote for municipal elections. So, when you go in you will be sanitized, identified and name will be marked off the voters list and person show his or her right index finger to show they have not voted before. I will tell you that we will use two different color inks and two different fingers for the dipping to know who have voted for the bi-election and who have voted for the municipal election.”

The by-election in Corozal Bay became necessary after the P.U.P. candidate in that division, David Vega, won his seat on November eleventh, but died exactly a month later before he could even be sworn-in to office. His sister, Elvia Vega has stepped up to contest the by-election. She is running against the Hilberto Campos of the United Democratic Party.