{"id":18879,"date":"2012-03-06T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18879"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:55:44","slug":"plp-voter-fraud-alleged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/plp-voter-fraud-alleged","title":{"rendered":"PLP Voter Fraud Alleged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_18882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18882\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bannister.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bannister\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bannister.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bannister-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desmond Bannister<\/figcaption><\/figure>Education Minister Desmond Bannister promised to reveal the full details on what he says is widespread voter fraud in North Andros, a constituency he will run in for the Free National Movement in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister told The Nassau Guardian he has already turned over some of the names of people involved to Parliamentary Commissioner Errol Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Andros has been the bedrock of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP),\u201d Bannister said. \u201cThey are desperate. They will do anything inside or outside the law to retain North Andros.\u201d Bannister, the current member of Parliament for Carmichael, insisted, \u201cI have the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary commissioner faced scathing criticisms from Election Court judges after the last general election and after the 2010 Elizabeth by-election.<\/p>\n<p>The justices pointed to egregious failures in the parliamentary registration system.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister will go head to head with Dr. Perry Gomez, the PLP\u2019s North Andros candidate, and Captain Randy Butler, who is the Democratic National Alliance\u2019s candidate for the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, Gomez was endorsed by several prominent individuals, including his brother Archbishop Drexel Gomez, who highlighted to PLP supporters his brother\u2019s accomplishments and values.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister suggested that the archbishop\u2019s presence on a political stage was inappropriate. \u201cHow ethical is it for an archbishop to be talking at a political rally?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He called Archbishop Gomez, Dame Marguerite Pindling and former Governor General A. D. Hanna (who all attended the event) \u201ca geriatric group\u201d brought out by the PLP to campaign for Gomez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Desmond Bannister is expected to reveal details on suspicions of widespread voter fraud in the PLP bedrock constituency of North Andros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[247,60,179],"class_list":["post-18879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fraud","tag-plp","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}