#DecisionJa2016: Portland Cottage voters with candidate paraphernalia turned away
CLARENDON, Jamaica – Voters at one of the polling stations at Portland Cottage in Clarendon South East are being prevented from voting if they are wearing shirts displaying the candidate’s name and photo.
“It is a rule that they can’t have the candidates photo when they going to vote,” a police officer said.
The electorate were instructed by the police officer to turn their shirts inside out before they would be allowed to vote.
The incumbent Rudyard Spencer is being challenged by the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Patricia Duncan Sutherland.
The community is a part of the Rocky Point electoral division. In the last general election Spencer accumulated the most votes in this electoral division, gaining 2166 to his opponent Dereck Lambert’s 1388.
Jedial Carter