Who blames BA for the:
...perverse use of the legal system to utilise tiny indiscretions in the balloting process to void a democratic ballot,
...ignoring the obvious deficiencies in BASSA's procedures and records.
At the same time BASSA's own peculiar attitude to democracy, exemplified below in an excerpt from its rules regarding the Branch Committee's ability to self-declare the circumstances under which full-blown democracy by postal ballot is relegated to a dodgy show of hands at a branch meeting never attended by more than a fifth of its members, is conveniently overlooked.
Voting on general matters as determined by the Committee, may be put to the Branch meeting and decided by a show of hands. On all issues of a substantial nature voting shall be by means of a postal ballot of the relevant section of the Branch Community directly affected.
Where an issue is deemed by at least a two-thirds majority vote of the Branch Committee to be of such an extreme importance and urgent nature and where a postal vote would be impractical or inappropriate decision could be placed before a BASSA 1/2000 Branch meeting for an immediate decision.
Can anyone tell me the last time BASSA held a postal ballot for anything apart from strike action (about which they have no choice but to ballot)?