One of the three can­di­dates who con­test­ed for lead­er­ship of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) in yes­ter­day’s elec­tions, says the lack of bal­lot pa­pers at two polling sta­tions may have hurt his chances of win­ning.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, leader of team Unit­ed Pub­lic Of­fi­cers Oral Saun­ders said the lack of bal­lot pa­pers at the Pe­nal and Princes Town polling sta­tions so­lid­i­fied his pre­vi­ous call for the elec­tions to be su­per­vised by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion.

“We would have said that an elec­tion of this mag­ni­tude de­serves to be run by per­sons who are com­pe­tent, per­sons who are ex­pe­ri­enced, and in our opin­ion, per­sons who have a neu­tral ap­proach to this elec­tion. Hence the rea­son why we would have rec­om­mend­ed, my­self per­son­al­ly and oth­ers in the gen­er­al coun­cil, we would have rec­om­mend­ed that the EBC be charged with the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of con­duct­ing this elec­tion,” he said.