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Elections Office staff began their duties early Wednesday morning dispatching ballot boxes and ballot papers under police guard from the Government Administration Building as Cayman’s general elections officially kicked off.
The hundreds of men and women charged with the responsibility of conducting local polls gathered at the Elgin Avenue building, which will serve as the Elections Office command centre for the day, where they began their official duties with a prayer.
Elections Supervisor Wesley Howell, in a brief interview with the Cayman Compass, said overnight the ballot boxes were checked and stored in a locked room which was then closed with an official seal.
That seal was broken Wednesday morning for the equipment and materials to be dispatched to the 17 polling stations in Grand Cayman.
“We came in here about 4:30am, got them [the boxes] sorted and loaded onto the buses, along with a couple of police officers for each station. So you have 17 buses departing to their…
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