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President-elect John F. Bowman ‘11 begins his behest, which feels like a pep-talk, by quoting Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, but adding his own twist to it—proclaiming that he and his running-mate will be “celebrating with a vengeance” tonight...
...Neither Bowman-Hysen nor Hayward-Zhang received the majority of first place votes due to the presence of a third-party joke ticket headed by Robert G.B. Long...
Following the Hare-Clark voting guidelines, when no candidates received the majority of first place votes, the ticket with the fewest votes was excluded from consideration, and the first place votes for that ticket were redistributed to the second-ranked candidates on those ballots. This process put Bowman-Hysen in the lead with 45 votes—the closest margin of victory in recent history—despite going into the first round with 31 fewer first place votes than Hayward-Zhang...
Just last night, at an Undergraduate Council General Meeting, the council voted to certify the contested results from last Thursday’s election, thus declaring John F. Bowman ’11 and Eric N. Hysen ’11 the future president and vice president of the UC, respectively. Finally, after three full days of voting investigation, Harvard’s student government has an officially elected successor. George J.J. Hayward ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, and Felix M. Zhang ’11 gracefully delivered concession speeches, heralding the beginning of a new chapter...
...having the full Council hear FAS IT testimony and certify the election results in last night’s meeting. This was the only way the organization could have preserved any legitimacy in the eyes of its constituency. As a re-vote was impossible with one ticket (Bowman-Hysen) having been unfairly slandered, last night’s certification was the best possible decision the UC could have made...