There was no evidence of “dead” or multiple voting on Election Day, according to the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) on Wednesday.

Deputy Chief Observer Vania Angelova, during a post-election press conference at the Pegasus Suites in Georgetown, told reporters that despite repeated claims in the pre-election period, observers on the ground saw no evidence of persons voting in the names of deceased citizens or of individuals casting more than one ballot.

“The accuracy of the voter list was questioned during the campaign and the pre-election period by the opposition political parties and also by the media and different interlocutors,” Angelova acknowledged. “However, during our observation, we haven’t seen any or heard about cases of impersonation of voters during the voting process…no multiple voting as well.”

Her reassurance comes against the backdrop of years of allegations over Guyana’s register of electors, which this year contained 757,069 registered voters.

Opposition parties had charged that the list was “bloated”, citing the inclusion of overseas-based Guyanese and dead persons. But according to the EU’s preliminary findings, while those concerns were widely aired during the campaign, they did not translate into abuses on Election Day.