Class Councils elected despite voting mishap
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 the 2015 SGA Class Council elections and a voting-system error.
- The News-Letter reported that Amy Sun was elected Class of 2016 president unopposed and Syed Hossain was reelected Class of 2017 president.
- The article says quotation marks around Alberto “Pepe” Muniz’s nickname caused his votes to be counted as abstentions; CSE Chair John Corbett said the software handled quotation marks poorly.
- The paper reported that voting for the Class of 2018 presidential race was reopened, and Anna Du won the revote with 358 votes to Muniz’s 158, with 20 abstentions.
- According to the article, Sarah Zappone, Kwame Alston, Sathvik Namburar, Lilly Su, Mieraf Teka and Tatiana Sorenson were elected to the sophomore council, while Hossain won the junior presidency with 305 votes.
- The reporter writes that Sun won the senior presidency with 234 votes, while four named candidates and two write-in candidates won the six senate seats.
- The article adds that Du described her platform as focused on policy, community and academics, Hossain said he would continue using surveys for student feedback, and Sun cited commencement input and greater transparency as goals.