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BY COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, December 29, 2011
TEMPERS flared briefly when supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) began arguing at polling stations in White Shop, North West Clarendon.
A handful of election day workers began lambasting about a dozen PNP supporters who congregated on the premises housing polling station numbers 21 and 25.
According to the election day workers, the PNP supporters were intimidating voters on the premises.
“They are not working, they have no reason to be on the premises, and yet they are here. All they are doing is intimidating the people them. You must leave the premises,” one election day worker said, directing his comments to the group of PNP supporters, one of whom immediately replied: “All of us are working, you can’t tell we to leave, you must leave.”
His response triggered shouts of support from his accomplices.
According to Maxine McKenzie, presiding officer at polling station number 21, the disturbance has had no direct impact on voting.
More than 40 per cent of registered voters for both polling centres, located beside each other, have turned out to cast their ballots, she said.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
TEMPERS flared briefly when supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) began arguing at polling stations in White Shop, North West Clarendon.
A handful of election day workers began lambasting about a dozen PNP supporters who congregated on the premises housing polling station numbers 21 and 25.
According to the election day workers, the PNP supporters were intimidating voters on the premises.
“They are not working, they have no reason to be on the premises, and yet they are here. All they are doing is intimidating the people them. You must leave the premises,” one election day worker said, directing his comments to the group of PNP supporters, one of whom immediately replied: “All of us are working, you can’t tell we to leave, you must leave.”
His response triggered shouts of support from his accomplices.
According to Maxine McKenzie, presiding officer at polling station number 21, the disturbance has had no direct impact on voting.
More than 40 per cent of registered voters for both polling centres, located beside each other, have turned out to cast their ballots, she said.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...#ixzz1hx451s6P