Punishing the candidates who ran a clean campaign
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 disputes over 2008 student council elections, including candidate disqualifications, postponed voting and senior participation.
- The article reported that the Appeals Committee disqualified all candidates for executive Council positions, while the CSE had voted to disqualify five of the nine candidates.
- The paper reported that the executive elections were pushed back, and the author argued that earlier campaign violations could still benefit candidates who violated the rules; the author proposed vote penalties.
- The article adds that the postponement also delayed class elections without input from people involved, disrupting campaign plans and giving candidates who had campaigned less an extra chance.
- The reporter writes that Student Council tabled a motion to disregard senior votes, leaving in place the Appeals Committee’s statement that “Senior Votes do count in Executive Board elections.”
- The article concludes that the author wanted the CSE to receive more authority over elections and said later intervention had worsened the process.