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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Concern over new voting system for PSA election

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JANELLE BERNARD
1741 days ago
20201022
Oral Saunders, presidential candidate for the United Public Officers, in the upcoming elections for the Public Service Association. (Image courtesy Oral Saunders)

Oral Saunders, presidential candidate for the United Public Officers, in the upcoming elections for the Public Service Association. (Image courtesy Oral Saunders)

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.

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