Myles defends right to be at mobile polling station
(CNS): Michael Myles, the CINP candidate for Prospect, said that, despite believing he had a legal right to be at the district polling station during mobile voting this week, he left without protest when asked by election officials. But speaking to CNS after what he said was an untruthful account appeared on another media platform, he explained that a mix-up over a policy, but not a change to the law, led to him be at the station as his own agent, which he said is legal.
The law permits candidates or their agents to be present at polling stations. But this year, the Elections Office issued a notice to candidates blocking them from being inside the homes of voters when mobile election workers attend to allow the elderly, disabled and those who are housebound to take part in the democratic process.
Myles argued that this directive had not been extended to candidates or their agents being present at the polling stations, and most of the mobile voting takes place on the buses. The only people attending the static polling stations on mobile voting days are the election officials, uniform officers and emergency services staff who will be working on Election Day.
Myles has a number of registered agents and is himself also registered as an agent as well as a candidate. However, he said his agents were on the buses, so he chose to attend the static polling station himself to keep abreast of the voters in the constituency who had used the mobile service.
Myles told CNS he arrived at 7:30am and was not asked to leave by any officials until around 11am, when one election official questioned whether he should be there. He said there had been no indication during the candidates’ briefing that they wouldn’t be allowed in polling stations on mobile voting days.
Following a quick phone conversation with the supervisor of elections, Myles said he willingly complied with the request. He said that if he had been aware at the start of the day that only agents are now permitted to watch mobile voting, he would have arranged for that to happen.
He said he was disappointed with the report on Cayman Marl Road as no one had called him about the incident, which he said was nothing more than a question of interpretation over where candidates who were acting as their own agents were allowed to be and was down to the absence of clear directions in the law.
Myles said that the election should be about lowering the cost of living, access to affordable healthcare, reforming the education system, immigration and transport — the real issues that concern voters, not about a candidate’s presence at a polling station where they are legally entitled to be.
CNS has reached out to the supervisor and deputy supervisor of elections, and we are awaiting a response, but there has been no indication from the elections office that Myles was in breach of the law.
According to the report on CMR, an unnamed election official stated that a candidate was present at the static station in Prospect, where election workers and other persons working on Election Day went to vote. “We had a conversation and the candidate left,” the official reportedly stated.
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I vote WBW so I have my own problems, but if you Prospect voters elect this man, you will be in for a rough 4 years mark my words. You will never see or hear from him again.
Lol. Bernie the second.
He speaks well for Caymanians. His actions prove he wants well for himself MORE.
He’s a walking red flag.
Myles is a loose cannon, and we can’t afford to risk having any more lawbreakers joining Mac Saunders and Kenneth in parliament.
He behaved as if he was a PPM candidate.
“which he said was nothing more than a question of interpretation over where candidates who were acting as their own agents were allowed to be and was down to the absence of clear directions in the law.”
It doesn’t get much clearer than the below.
https://caymannewsservice.com/elections2025/2025/04/11/candidates-barred-from-mobile-voters-homes/
This man lies through his teeth constantly. The Elections Office sent out a Public Notice which ALL parties, candidates and the public has seen. It clearly states “CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO PERSONALLY ATTEND MOBILE VOTING STATIONS OR ACCOMPANY THE MOBILE POLLING TEAM WHILE MOBILE VOTERS ARE BEING POLLED”
He knew exactly what he was doing and should be held accountable for ignoring clear instructions. No other candidate from any constituency seemed to misunderstand.
Mr. Myles, please, get your act together. I am keen to give you a chance over the other two, but I need to know you are not going to do outlandish things like this once you are an MP. Though I do not vote in WBS, I still demand a dignified representative.
Check his previous record in government and you will see that doing whatever he wants is a trait of his. Hence why he was fired.
Untrue no matter how many times it gets said.