Smooth voting in Cornwall

Junior Dowie/Staff Photographer Soldiers line up to vote at Up Park Camp yesterday.

WESTERN BUREAU:
EXCEPT FOR some instances of police and military personnel's inability to find their names on the voters lists, yesterday's voting by the security forces and election day workers in the county of Cornwall flowed quite smoothly.

"It was a pretty good day as the polling stations were up and running on time and the voting went smoothly," said Hugh Miller, the Returning Officer for West Central St. James.

"In the instances in which the names of police and soldiers did not appear on the list, it was discovered that their votes were not transferred from the parish in which they were enumerated.

Police personnel in St. Elizabeth, Hanover and St. James discovered that their names were listed in other parts of the island. In Trelawny, the electoral officials did not seem as well prepared as their counterparts in the other parishes in the region.

"I really don't know what is happening out there and in any case, I was instructed not to give any information to the media," said an electoral official manning the office of the Returning Officer for North Trelawny.

In St. James, police personnel voted at the divisional headquarters at the Montego Bay Freeport. The mood among the lawmen was quite jovial, as they went through the process with minimum of fuss.