BoE to conduct runoff election
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 a third Student Council presidential election and an appeal that changed the senior-class result.
- The News-Letter reported that Soren Gandrud and Hyder Syed would face each other in a runoff after tying with 397 votes each; voting was scheduled from noon Saturday to noon Sunday.
- The paper reported that Payal Patel’s appeal overturned her disqualification, and that she became Class of 2005 president after receiving 43.5 percent of the vote.
- The article adds that turnout fell from 35.1 percent in March to 24 percent in the class elections, while Gandrud said he feared participation would fall further.
- The reporter writes that the Board of Elections removed its campaign rules for the emergency election, leaving the candidates subject only to municipal, state and national laws; Co-Chair Matt Bouloubasis said this allowed them to do “pretty much anything they want.”
- According to the article, the JHU-ACLU had complained about the election process, and Patel’s campaign-list email led to her initial disqualification because it violated the Board of Elections’ guidelines.