Progressive Liberal\u2008Party (PLP) Deputy Leader Philip Brave Davis suggested yesterday that the amendments being proposed to the Parliamentary Elections Act do not go far enough in reforming the election process.<\/p>\n
Davis offered several recommendations:<\/p>\n
He suggested that the government amend the law so that a voter\u2019s finger is inked after casting a vote, as is the practice In Jamaica.\u00a0 Currently, a voter\u2019s thumb is dipped in indelible ink before the vote is\u00a0 cast.<\/p>\n
The amendments state in certain terms that ballots that are marked with ink would be thrown out.<\/p>\n
Davis said such an amendment would eliminate the need for that. Over the past decades, some voters have used the ink on their thumbs to indicate their choice.<\/p>\n
As it relates to an amendment to allow for overseas voting, Davis pointed to the chance of abuse.<\/p>\n
He said the question is not whether people should be allowed to register overseas.\u00a0 Davis said the opportunity is greater for them to fraudulently register to vote.<\/p>\n
“The mischief is with the activists who can go around and round up people to say ‘I live here’,” Davis said.<\/p>\n
He suggested that registration of voters is only carried out in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PLP Deputy Leader and drug lawyer, Philip Brave Davis, says proposed election reform amendments do not go far enough. Agreed! Maybe they should ban drug lawyers from being politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[93,67,49,60],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-law","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}