From Joe Harmon’s extensive statement early in the week, to interviews by Lennox Craig and David Patterson at midweek, then by Amna Ally, Cathy Hughes and Aubrey Norton, all singing from the same hymn book – the elections were rigged by the PPP.

Deconstructing President Granger’s statement in his public broadcast on May 4 that “The General and Regional Elections were free, fair and orderly,” Mr. Norton said that the President did not use the word “credible,” implying that the President was not ruling out the alleged PPP frauds.

The summary of APNU+AFC allegations made by the abovenamed persons during last week, contradicting President Granger, is contained in its statement that there were “clear and unmistakable patterns of irregularities and discrepancies and worse” in the elections, which it attributed to the PPP.

The place for these objections, relating to the lawful conduct of elections or whether an unlawful act or omission is likely to have affected the results (voting by the dead or migrated), is by an election petition after the declaration of results.

There appears to be no reason for the endless objections at the recount by APNU+AFC unless it is to build a case to argue that the results of the recount should not be accepted and that the results of the elections should be declared based on the existing declarations, as has been repeatedly argued since the end of the elections and in the interviews last week.