Arthur Hall, Senior Staff Reporter

The final voters' list to be used in the People's National Party (PNP) internal elections will be printed today as the secretariat completes its arrangements for Saturday's contest.

Yesterday, party officials said that final corrections to the draft list were being done to ensure that it could be printed and ready for distribution.

The party has spent several hours in the last two weeks fine-tuning the list of approximately 4,400 delegates who will vote for a president and four vice-presidents.

The party has also agreed that educator and former Senator Noel Monteith will serve as the director of elections.

He will be supported by Raymond Reece who was in charge of the election day activities for the 2006 presidential race.

The Electoral Office of Jamaica will provide the majority of election day workers while the oversight committee will be in place to deal with any dispute.

That committee has been very busy in the lead-up to the election with supporters of the two presi-dential candidates, Portia Simpson Miller and Dr Peter Phillips, trading accusations and charges.

In the latest dispute, Phillips' Arise and Renew team wrote to the oversight committee alleging that Simpson Miller supporters were tricking delegates into signing declaration forms.

Deceived

According to the Phillips camp, the majority of persons had signed the forms declaring their support for Simpson Miller after being deceived into believing that this was necessary for them to vote.

The Phillips team claimed that this was an attempt to subvert democracy in the PNP.

But this was quickly rejected by the Simpson Miller's Team PNP camp.

According to Team PNP, the delegates' declaration form was first used by Simpson Miller in the 1992 presidential election and again when she successfully ran for the top job in 2006.

Team PNP says the accusation was a clear attempt by the Arise and Renew team to tarnish the reputation of the delegates who it says willingly signed the forms.