The PLP simply lucked out on General Election Day - 2021
By Dennis Dames
I heard the now-Prime Minister, Philip Brave Davis repeat the false accusation that former Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis suppressed voters by calling an early general election – and hence not allowing new voters to register, and existing voters who moved into other constituencies over six months to transfer accordingly.
This is the same Mr. Davis who was calling frantically and at every turn for Minnis to ring the bell, from early 2020!
When Minnis prorogued the House of Assembly and and subsequently dissolved it sometime in August 2021, the only prevailing question on my mind was: did the PLP do its homework in terms of adding new potential party supporters to the national voters register?
This is why I took a conscious break from writing during the 2021 campaign, Mr. Davis. I was waiting on the results of the general election to give me the answer to that burning question in my mind.
Lo and behold, the question was answered; only about 65% of the registered voters participated. It is perhaps the lowest voter turnout ever - in the history of Bahamian general elections.
Brave Davis and the PLP failed to mount an energetic national voter registration and transfer campaign leading up to the general election.
That’s why Mr. Davis, now PM Davis, is still crying about his fake claim of voter suppression in The Bahamas by Minnis.
Prime Minister Davis and the PLP simply lucked out or dodged the bullet on Election Day 2021, and won without trying, in my humble opinion.