Staff Editorial: We deserve to know
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 covers the Board of Elections’ reported decision-making about releasing freshman-election vote tallies.
- The article says the BoE had not released tallies, calling their release the remaining step after the freshman elections.
- The paper reported that co-chairs Rick Aseltine and Matt Bouloubasis said the board was forming a policy on releasing tallies and would decide sometime that week.
- The reporter writes that candidates could request tallies by email, but the BoE had not told them; Aseltine said, "We didn't see a need for it," and added, "I would think that's assumed."
- The article quotes Student Council President Charles Reyner asking, "How can you prove that someone won without releasing the numbers?" and reports that Bouloubasis said the BoE had no obligation to release tallies.
- The paper reported that the BoE had decided to abandon the Single Transferable Voting system and said a single-vote election could require a runoff if decided by one vote.