St. Maarten Private Eye

Flipper

I have been following this thread. You must understand that the voters list is a list of eligable voters on the island of St.Maarten.
Even if Juliana decides not to vote, her name will still be registered. If she does not vote, the list will show that she did not show up at the polling booth to vote.
This list is used at the polling booth to register the voters when they arrive, names of voters that do vote are then scratched off.
Leaving ofcourse the names of the registered voters who did not show up. The past couple of years I have witnessed that the largest parties have their own people inside the voting room at their own table marking off the voters that do arrive and guess what???? each political party also has a copy of the voters list. It has become common practice that political party supporters will call the voters who did not show up yet to vote and 'give them a reminder'
I know several people that have recieved these kind of calls including myself.
What i am trying to say is that the voters register is in the hands of the political parties on the island. It is not a secret document.
The only thing I did not follow with Juliana's argument is some comment about dead people, this is an insult to the Lt. Governor and his people as they have cleaned up this list already. if Juliana is a voter her name will show up in this register otherwise she cannot vote.
For those people not of Netherlands Antilles origin following this thread, keep in mind that each voter that comes in to the polling booth has his/her name read out loudly across the room by the electoral committee that sits and ticks off the voters that do show from the voters list.
This is not the United Stated of America where one has to register to vote. Like mentioned above, each and every citizen of Dutch Nationality is automatic a voter once they are registered as such at the census office.