ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it wants an explanation for a number of discrepancies in the latest voters registered list when it meets with Supervisor of Election, Nadica McIntyre, today.

The NDC is claiming that more than 100 dead people's names are on the voters' list and that the names of persons registered for the June 30 list have been excluded from the current list dated September 30.

Deputy political leader George Prime points at the St. Andrew's South West constituency where he claims that more than 500 names have been taken off the new voters' list.

"The concern that we have is that persons who have died five and six years ago and have been taken off the list are now reappearing on the September 30 list. That for us really sends very serious signals to us," declared Prime during a news conference in St. George's.

"Continuous registration as we understand it must seek to update the list on every single publication. The reason why it is called continuous it means that it must develop and build on what it has. The list must be accurate, reliable and always updated. This is the direct reverse now," he said.

The new voters' list published December 30 comes a month after the November 30 deadline announced by Supervisor of Elections McIntyre, after the computer crash late last year.

While confirming the computer crash, McIntyre has, however, denied opposition claims that 10 thousand names on the voters' list were missing or unaccounted for.

But Prime who heads the NDC's election committee says the problems surfacing now at the country's elections office are linked to the crash as well as the sacking of both the supervisor of elections and Deputy Supervisor around the middle of last year.

"The list that should supersede the June 30th list is now in a state where it is no longer reliable or for that matter accurate because it has in it a number of discrepancies and or inaccuracies," Prime told reporters.