SGA issues voting recount to fill class council vacancies
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 phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a recount of the 2018–19 SGA class council elections and the voting-system dispute behind it.
- The News-Letter reported that the Committee on Student Elections released recounted results after a voting-system change left ten seats open; the recount used the plurality system instead of ranked voting.
- The paper reported that Omar Lloyd and Kiana Boroumand were added as junior class senators, while Sam Mollin, Evan Mays and Matthew Taj were added to the sophomore council; five senior council seats remained open.
- The article says four candidates filed a case with the SGA judiciary, but the CSE offered a recount settlement before the case moved forward, and a justice said the judiciary issued no ruling.
- The reporter writes that Mollin said candidates lacked enough information about the voting system, while CSE member Chris Pak said, "Clearly we didn’t get the word out well enough so that people understood."
- According to the article, the CSE was considering a return to plurality voting, the CSE received $100 for operations, and a fall special election was planned to fill the five remaining senior seats.