Frosh elections successful
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 examines the controversy surrounding the 2002 freshmen Student Council elections.
- The News-Letter reported that candidates had to submit spending reports by the close of voting, and that each candidate could spend no more than $100.
- The paper reported that Saul Garlick’s disqualification followed a late spending report and campaign violations.
- The article says Christal Ng received the most second-place votes and was elected freshmen-class president.
- The reporter writes that turnout was 38 percent after duplicate and fraudulent votes were removed, compared with 47 percent the previous year.
- The article adds that this was the first online election, and that no systems crashed and the program counted votes correctly.
- The News-Letter reported that the election was not perfect and said the six new Student Council members earned their positions.