And while that would be an impressive figure - and it seems like they will get it, would it matter if a few of those votes were bogus?
It seems that's just what one man set out to do today: to expose the People's Referendum as a fraud.
The persons who is known to us - asked to conceal his name and face - but he told us and presented us pictures of him voting at four different polling stations.
He started at Brodies on the Northern Highway, then went to Mahogany Heights, then Valley Community and then Dangriga. He claims he managed to vote at two locations with black ink on his finger.
The pictures show him voting at all four locations.
From our observation, the system is vulnerable to this type of mischief because registered electors were allowed to vote at all polling stations regardless of where they were registered: for example you could vote in Belize City even if you were registered in Toledo East.
Nonetheless Matura-Shepherd told us they've kept a record of the names of all those who voted, and all those names which appear more than once will be struck out...
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