Election Observation Report: Guyana 2023

Updated: October 2023
Two photos of three election observers (one woman and two men) assisting voters and checking for accessible entryways.

The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD), with support of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems under the USAID Youth Advocacy, Linkages, Leadership in Elections and Society (Youth ALLIES) Program, engaged in a rigorous election access observation mission for Guyana's 2023 local government elections. The report methodology integrates an analysis of the legal landscape, real-time observations conducted on election day (June 12, 2023), access audits of registration sites conducted in September 2023, and interviews with voters with disabilities. Using a methodology that GCOPD tailored from IFES’ Election Access Observation Toolkit for the Guyana context, GCOPD deployed 42 youth observers to collect data as part of a disability access observation mission that covered 563 polling stations (36% of total polling stations). The observers were strategically deployed across eight out of the ten voting regions in Guyana, encompassing urban, suburban, and remote areas. 

 

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