Politics hamper BoE - Board of Elections
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on internal disagreements within the Board of Elections and tensions with Student Council.
- The paper reported that student body president Manish Gala described two competing approaches within the Board of Elections and said its relationship with Student Council was “very poor.”
- The article says Gala reported that all five Executive Board members learned about the first candidate-rules meeting after it had taken place on a snow day.
- According to the article, Student Council approved Matt Bouloubasis and Nick Aseltine, both current Board of Elections members, as the next chairs.
- The reporter writes that the new chairs pushed for relaxed campaign rules, which were used in an election where two senior class representatives were elected after the first two write-in candidates were declared invalid.
- The paper reported that Gala said the changes were meant to encourage candidates to speak with voters instead of trying to disqualify opponents.