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Candidate for the leadership of the Public Services Association (PSA) Oral Saunders responded to concerns and claims of malfeasance for the association's elections by saying, "God sees all."
As of 11 am, Saunders' team, the United Public Officers had received the second highest number of votes, with 381 ballots, behind incumbent Watson Duke, who received 645.
Speaking with Newsday on Tuesday, Saunders said despite the large gap in votes, he was still confident of his chances of winning the election.
He said while he also noted reports of recounts of some ballots, he placed in confidence in a higher power.
"I hate to complain, because complaining makes me sound as if I'm a sore loser so I won't do that.
"If I had to respond to these reports I would simply say that God sees all and I am happy with the performance of my team no matter what the outcome of the elections are."
Saunders also noted that he understood several workers from different regional health authorities (RHAs) were not allowed to cast their ballots on Monday without being given a reason why.
"For some reason a lot of them (RHA workers) I was told on Monday didn't get to vote, and I'm not sure why. They were told that their names weren't on the list and they didn't get to cast their ballot."
He also said he agreed with fellow candidate Nixon Callender that the membership was primarily responsible for selecting the PSA's leadership and chided registered members who did not vote for their inaction.
"If the people themselves don't respond, there's only so much we can do, whether they supported us or not.
"Any person that did not vote was also an endorsement to Mr Duke in the manner in which he was treating us, it shows you are okay with how he managed the PSA. That's what a non-vote does to someone like Mr Duke."
Saunders said while 12,000 members were registered to vote, preliminary results suggested only 3,500 showed up to vote, and he felt this was a reflection of Duke's impact on the trade union.
Newsday also spoke to another candidate, Curtis Cuffie, who did not have much confidence in the integrity of the election process.
Cuffie accused Duke of not following the election procedures and said the transparency of the process was compromised.
"People are frustrated, as the due process wasn't followed. We filed a substantive matter in court on Sunday night and the concerns we raised before the judge played out on Monday for the voting process.
"I am of the opinion that there were too many teams in the election, and after the election I will make an attempt to try and unify the other teams to try and organise another election. This is the situation as is."
Cuffie also said he already knew what the outcome of the election would be and he "would not stress himself" over a defeat, as a legal challenge was made against the PSA.
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