Gail Alexan­der

Re­counts by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of votes in bal­lot box­es and poll cards in four mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies were still at half mark yes­ter­day, with a flu­id sit­u­a­tion on­go­ing.

Re­counts will con­tin­ue in­to this week­end as the EBC works to­ward com­ple­tion of the ex­er­cise, which was called for by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress af­ter it lost Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion 22-19 to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

Fol­low­ing Mon­day’s elec­tion, the UNC called for re­counts for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro, San Fer­nan­do West, St Joseph, Tu­na­puna and To­co/San Grande. PDP leader Wat­son Duke al­so re­quest­ed a re­count of votes in To­ba­go East but con­ced­ed de­feat soon af­ter the re­count be­gan, al­low­ing the EBA to con­firm the PNM’s Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy the win­ner.

On Thurs­day, a re­count in San Fer­nan­do West was al­so de­clared in favour of PNM can­di­date Faris Al-Rawi over UNC’s Sean Sobers.

Apart from bal­lots be­ing count­ed, poll cards are al­so be­ing count­ed.

EBC Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope com­plained on Thurs­day that the UNC can­di­dates have been frus­trat­ing the process by not ad­her­ing to the rule set down by the pre­sid­ing of­fi­cers who were in charge of the re­count process­es.

Yes­ter­day, EBC com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er Bob­bie Rogers said at 1.09 pm, the sta­tus­es of the oth­er re­counts then were:

• To­co/San­gre Grande: 39 out of 60 bal­lot box­es count­ed

•La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro: 29 out of 53 box­es count­ed.

•Tu­na­puna: 23 out of 51 box­es count­ed.

•St Joseph: 15 out of 54 box­es count­ed.