And those waivers were signed in May and June of 1993, the run up to that year's snap general election - it's just one symptom of the craziness that accompanies the quest for all the marbles.
And while the political frenzy has taken center stage - at the end of the day, the only thing that matters are the results, the ballots counted. In previous years, voters and candidates had to anxiously wait until midnight or the next day for the official results. But not this time - Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai told us that the new election system will ensure the results are in quicker. She explained to Courtney Weatherburne how it will work:...
Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer
"We did it for the Cayo North as well where we did the simultaneous counting. Because one of the things that we realize is that people have already went to the polls to cast their vote and people want to know the results. So in order for us to improve on what we do, we have implemented whereby we do simultaneous counting. So all boxes or as many boxes as possible are counted at the same time. Because I know that sometime persons complain that they cannot afford to have all boxes counted. But like I said, it's just for us to be more efficient. We have tried it before, it has worked very well. The Belizean public has the information in terms of the results much earlier and so that is why we are doing it again and we are hoping that it will work again and we continue to improve as we go along."
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