JANELLE BERNARD

PSA pres­i­den­tial can­di­date for the Unit­ed Pub­lic Of­fi­cers, Oral Saun­ders, is ex­press­ing con­cern over what he says is an at­tempt to im­ple­ment a new soft­ware sys­tem on the eve of the elec­tion.

Saun­ders says the elec­tion for the Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion was stopped in 2017 over le­gal is­sues con­cern­ing the time­ly prepa­ra­tion of a Vot­ers’ List.

He be­lieves this new de­vel­op­ment can al­so re­sult in le­gal chal­lenges.

Saun­ders is ques­tion­ing the ori­gins of the new sys­tem and whether or not it has ob­tained the prop­er ap­provals. He says any fun­da­men­tal change to elec­tion rules must be passed by the Gen­er­al Coun­cil and al­so the Con­fer­ence of Del­e­gates.

The Pub­lic Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion elec­tion is card­ed for No­vem­ber 23rd.