Harvard student union organizers filed an objection Thursday to a November election that could determine whether or not eligible students can form a union, arguing that the University may have prevented eligible voters from participating.

Further complicating an election process marred by a delayed and initially inconclusive vote count, the objection filing charges that the voter list the University provided for the election may have excluded hundreds of eligible voters, according to a post on the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers’ Facebook page. The objection could ultimately prompt a new vote on whether or not eligible students at Harvard can unionize.

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The NLRB will conduct hearings on the objections next month, and could call for a revote in an election whose results have already been delayed due to questions of voter eligibility. William B. Gould, a Stanford Law professor who was the chair of the NLRB from 1994 to 1998, wrote in an email that “the goal of objections is to get the election set aside and this will generally mean a new election.”