SMN News learnt that the discovery was made in a closed door meeting on Monday when the verification process was taking place.
The two parties would have at least three days after the receipt of the letter to react by making the necessary corrections. The source said most of the errors that were made relates to how some of the candidate's names on each of the two lists were written.
In an invited comment leader of the National Alliance William Marlin said his list had a simple error with one of the candidates. He said the candidate first name and married name was written on the form but somehow the word "born" was left out before her maiden name. The corrections Marlin said was already made and submitted to the main voting bureau. Several efforts to contact the leader of the Democratic Party proved futile up to press time.
In the meantime, the two new political parties that were formed this year to contest the early elections for St. Maarten, namely the United People's Party headed by Theo Heyliger and the Concordia Political Alliance headed by Jeffry Richardson have been approved.
SMN News further learnt that the CPA might be able to add a second candidate to his list since the Civil Registry made some mistakes when dealing with Aruba born Leo Richardson. It is understood that the committee that perused the lists and the complaint filed by Jeffry Richardson already agreed that the mistakes were made by the civil registry thus Leo Richardson will be allowed to vote come September 17. SMN News further learnt that discussions are currently ongoing to see if the possibility of adding Leo Richardson as a candidate to the CPA list exists. The source said the CPA leader is not giving up on his quest to have a second person on his list and that he would be continuing the fight even if it means filing an injunction on Friday.
