Po­lit­i­cal leader of the In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) Rekha Ramjit yes­ter­day slammed the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) for in­form­ing her par­ty mere hours be­fore to­day's Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions that three polling sta­tions in the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion had been shift­ed.

So an­noyed was Ramjit, she promised to write the EBC a let­ter to­mor­row about the dis­turb­ing is­sue.

"We came in­to the of­fice lunch time to­day (yes­ter­day) and found a hand de­liv­ered let­ter, signed by one of the EBC's re­turn­ing of­fi­cers, which was stuck un­der our door in­di­cat­ing that to­mor­row (to­day) the lo­ca­tions of three polling sta­tions in Fe­lic­i­ty/En­deav­our had been re­lo­cat­ed," an up­set Ramjit said yes­ter­day.

The sta­tions have been moved from Mon­trose Vedic Pri­ma­ry School to Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege at Yves Street, Ch­agua­nas.

Three polling sta­tions are 2905, 2906 and 2010.

In the 2013 elec­tions, Ramjit said, of the 104,000 votes the ILP had cap­tured, in these three polling sta­tions, they won the most votes.

"We were ahead of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress by about 50 votes, which was suf­fi­cient to make a dif­fer­ence."

The ILP is con­test­ing sev­en of its eight seats in the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion. In 2013 they won two of the eight seats they vied for.

Ramjit said she was most an­noyed by the last-minute change, since she felt the EBC could have no­ti­fied the ILP way in ad­vance.

She said de­liv­er­ing such a let­ter at the "eleventh hour" of an elec­tion would no doubt cause dis­ar­ray among its vot­ers and cre­ate con­fu­sion for the par­ty.

"Why did we get our let­ter af­ter work­ing hours? My po­si­tion is that...arrange­ments would have been made by the ILP to take our vot­ers to these sta­tions. Or they would go there them­selves. This is a turn off for vot­ers now.

"Peo­ple would not want to go to these polling sta­tions to cast their bal­lots. This late no­tice will work against us. Is this re­al­ly un­fair to us? Why were let­ters not de­liv­ered to all par­ties at the same time?"

On Sat­ur­day, leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told sup­port­ers at the par­ty's ral­ly in Cou­va that they too were no­ti­fied by the EBC that these polling sta­tions in Ch­agua­nas had been shift­ed.

Ramjit claimed the move was one way of sti­fling the ef­forts of the mi­nor par­ties, who were chal­leng­ing the PNM and UNC.

Stat­ing that the out­come of to­day's elec­tions was dif­fi­cult to pre­dict, Ramjit said while peo­ple are an­noyed with the UNC and PNM, they would still sup­port them.

"Be­cause vot­ers feel these are the par­ties that have the pow­er to give them a hand out. They recog­nise the ILP has no pow­er in Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment.

"It's all about be­ing able to get some­thing from who has the pow­er. We are try­ing to make a change in Ch­agua­nas."

Leader of the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice David Ab­du­lah said the par­ty had a smooth tran­si­tion for the elec­tion cam­paign..

"We had a few mo­tor­cades to­day and every­thing went smooth­ly," Ab­du­lah said.