BoE to hold new senior rep. 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 an appeal and a new election for Class of 2004 representatives.
- The News-Letter reported that an appeals panel overturned the Board of Election’s ruling, invalidated the election of write-in candidates Raj Chopra and Prashanth Rao, and ordered a fresh election.
- The article says the appeal argued that the Board of Election had misread the constitution, which requires the top three candidates to receive more than 25 percent of all legal votes; the board had instead used only write-in votes for write-in candidates.
- The paper reported that the appeals panel voted for the appeal; according to Manish Gala, “you must be loyal to the constitution,” and a new election was “the fairest means of restitution.”
- The reporter writes that Board of Election Chair Mary Keough supported rerunning the election and said, “The most important thing ... is [that] we get the student body represented.”
- According to the article, voting was set for Sunday through Monday, the petition requirement was cut to 50 signatures, and any junior could run; three candidates attended the required meeting and were the only official candidates.
- The article says the new winners would be ratified at the next Student Council meeting, while Gala also reported that the Board of Election had faced other questions about constitutional procedures during the year.