Board of Elections must be dissolved - Guest Column
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 guest column reports on Atin Agarwal’s proposal to dissolve the Board of Elections and replace it.
- The paper reported that Agarwal said he had witnessed or taken part in nine elections and had not seen one run properly.
- The article says a special election was scheduled for May 9, 2005, to vote on an amendment eliminating the Board of Elections.
- The reporter writes that Agarwal introduced the amendment after gathering 683 student signatures; it would create a Committee on Student Elections accountable to the Executive President of the Student Council and the Director of Student Involvement.
- The article adds that the candidate list for an April 21 election was not posted until 8 p.m. the night before, and candidates did not know who they were running against until then.
- According to the article, election advertising was “literally non-existent,” while the rising senior class had three candidates for seven positions.