Jan­nelle Bernard

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

Saun­ders said the PSA elec­tion was stopped in 2017 over le­gal is­sues con­cern­ing the time­ly prepa­ra­tion if a vot­er’s list.

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

Saun­ders, who spoke with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, said, “You must re­call that the PSA elec­tion was stopped in 2017 and the is­sue that caused the elec­tion to stoop via the court was the vot­ers list and lack of prepa­ra­tion: to present the prop­er vot­er’s list for an elec­tion. So why is this new sys­tem be­ing im­ple­ment­ed or pro­posed to be im­ple­ment­ed at this eleventh hour.”

Saun­ders is al­so ques­tion­ing the ori­gins of the new sys­tem and whether or not it has got­ten the prop­er ap­provals.

He said any fun­da­men­tal change to the elec­tion rules must be passed by the gen­er­al coun­cil and al­so the con­fer­ence of del­e­gates.

The elec­tion is card­ed for No­vem­ber 23.