Finally, election reform - Editorial
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
- The Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on proposed and recent Board of Elections campaign-rule changes.
- The News-Letter reported that newly appointed co-chairs Matt Bouloubasis and Rick Aseltine, along with the board, pledged at a Student Council meeting to loosen campaign rules and revise the board’s constitution.
- The paper reported that candidates would be allowed to create more individual campaigns, subject to spending limits and University rules.
- The article says two senior class representatives were elected after an appeals panel rejected the first-round write-in winners, and voter turnout doubled.
- The reporter writes that the election tested relaxed rules, including a campaign banner in the breezeway, and that no candidate was disqualified.
- The article adds that Bouloubasis and Aseltine drafted proposed regulations that the board approved, and that the Board of Elections planned to survey this year’s candidates.