Going straight to the point, A LARGE VOTER TURN OUT is indicitive of C H A N G E…….no long talk. GIVE IT SOME TIME….We shall all soon know WHAT IS WHAT..and WHO IS NOT !

My friend BAFBFP is right on target. The more than 50% us who will vote no vote today will will this election and will form the next government. It is us who recognize the failure of all the governing systems, everywhere! This election was largely characterized by an absence about the Dark Night that we have entered. There was only one point at which the leader of one party had reason to highlight the inability of current systems to ameliorate conditions. With our election victory must come a sublime madness, a sacred activism, an empowerment of The Kali, to ignite the radical transformation that is our only way of transcendence.

We have had enough of fumble stuart and the whole bunch of wild boys and girls.

@ Observer

The blocks in Barbados are burgeoning precisely because of increasing unemployment. Many of these guys were previously employed but now are emasculated and humiliated because they cannot even feed their children.

You can imagine what it would feel like to look your woman and children in the eye and have nothing for them to eat?

The block is a form of escapism for sure, but it helps to ease the pain.

We have this habit of sitting in our ivory towers and judging people making pronouncements about national service and police control. But, surely, a strategy of getting a lot of these people back into gainful employment would be a far more effective means of solving the problem.

@ Alvin Cummins

I do not accept your testimony as a member of a constituency council for the very reason that you were a member of a constituency council.

There is evidence online of $200.00 gift vouchers being handed out in St. Joseph from the beginning of the year. This you cannot deny.

Was it your constituency council office that was run out of the constituency office of the parliamentary representative, where the rent money was divvied up among partakers of the fatted calf? Just asking.

The very structure of the councils whereby the minister appoints the council members is a deliberate, bold faced act of politicking with the cost being borne by taxpayers.A democratic selection process, with councils based on communities and not constituencies would be the proper way to do it to avoid legitimate worries about political manipulation.

But, they were set up for the purpose that they actually serve – a source of slush funds for the party in power to do electioneering.

@Observer

Also explain why the block in St. Lucy was demolished the day after Kelly saw the video the guys made.

day is dying in de west,
when de votes are counted dat will be de true test
de electors will dismiss all those dat are real pests
and bajans will again at night get their full rest
we voting only for the best
to clean up barbados from the current mess
i miss JC real bad I must confess

To appoint Kerri as minister of education would be an affront to all that is decent given his domestic issues.

@alvin
I’ll ask for the second time. How many annual constituency reports has your council ever presented to the public, if any? Has your council ever presented or published any financials (audited or otherwise) to constituents or the general public?

The Councils are a great idea with great intention, however they quickly became politicised and then have not exercised the core feature needed to make them transparent, accountable and “legitimate.” I’ll exclude your council from my generalisation if the answers to my two above questions are yes and yes.

Just Observing

@Hal
Exit poll? In Barbados??? man ya got me hey rolling up pun d floor man. Come back ta we lil third world!

Just Observing

@Hal Austin,

I respectfully suggest that you hang out with some less successful Balans when you are there.

They will tell you they would not participate in an exit poll.

They have not forgotten Lammie or Owen.

What nonsense am I hearing? Ronald aint solve any issue at Alexandra. He did nothing

Question to the politically astute on BU. If there is no exit polling how is it the media can report that voter turn out was high?

By the way congrats to Barbadians to uneventful going about the business of marking the x.

David; Re. your last question;

I think the media can report on the relative volume of the voter turnout through checks at the polling stations and getting estimates from polling agents, or even polling officials, how many people voted at any time in the day and compare that with previous years. No significanct science or high tech is involved there, just standard good reporting.

I also think that the two parties will also have a fairly good even if rough idea of how the voting went for them. e.g. the number of people from various stronghold boxes who were transported to polling booths; the guesses of their agents who might see through the folded ballot and can form a good idea of how people voted based on what they see when the voter shows his/her ballot to the election official; the turnout of voters from their stronghold districts; the turnout from their opponents districts; etc. etc.

By now the parties have a good idea of if they probably won or lost.

I think it is now time for the partisan posters here to leave out the talking points of their parties. They serve no useful purpose at this stage.

David; It could be folded once. I saw a number of people ahead of me folding theirs once this morning. I also took my mother at 93 years old to another polling station ans she folded hers once only. Indeed, I was told several years ago by a veteran election agent(and I don’t think the system has changed much since then) that they could tell how many people voted merely by looking at the folded ballot and seeing which area was darker. Perhaps they might be using thicker paper nowadays but It was possible some years ago. BTW I am definitely not laying any claim to being politically astute, just passing on some insights gained from working in the public service for several years.

David what’s going on.There are no comments between 7pm and bushie at 8.09pm

I found a link on VOB that showing the analysts Hartley Henry, David Ellis, Harold Hoyte, Peter Wickham, a rep for the BLP, no rep for the DLP as yet, giving their spin on the election
http://elections2013.vob929.com/

I had to fold twice in order for the ballot card to fit through the slit of the ballot box..

And Yes I did hear on the radio someone was charged.

St. Michael North East results coming soon.

Mia Mottley has won her seat.

St. Michael North East is obviously Mottley.

Mara again.

David I using the Canadian system to call the results.lol

NEWS JUST IN
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES LOSE THEIR DEPOSITS

It is early days but the results so far show a 6 to 7% swing away from the DLP which is consistent with Wickham’s prediction.

I prefer the panel on VOB. I getting CBC TV.