BASSA's possible spin on why BA contacted ERS in advance of the results being published is interesting.
Some posters on these threads said during the balloting process that there were crew who had left BASSA but still received ballots. And that they had forwarded them to BA to let them know.
If this is the case, and BA received a number of documented reports of former union members receiving ballots, then it sounds as though BA contacted the polling group to try to address this legally before they published results. Maybe they wrote to them to say "some ex-members may have voted and been included in your totals..."
Sounds more like BA's duty of care to the process, due to the fact that they had crew reporting ballots sent to non-members, than trying to surpress the results. But then that doesn't play as well to the peanut gallery, as the latter reason....
Sadly, guess we all will find out when it goes to court--again.