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Reversing a statement he made Wednesday evening, Election Commission representative David L. Levy '00 said that new Undergraduate Council President-Elect Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and Vice President-Elect John A. Burton '01 never overspent their campaign limit...
Levy, along with three other members of the five-member election board, had said repeatedly that Burton and Driskell--who won the campus-wide election for president and vice president in a landslide--exceeded their spending limit by $5 to $10, although he would not release the exact amount...
Among other campaign planks, Driskell and Burton say they will put response cards in the dining halls for students to submit comments and complaints to the council. Driskell has also vigorously endorsed the Harvard Census 2000 project, a campus-wide survey which she says will reveal what students would like to change about their undergraduate experiences...
...release of the election results came only hours after the council's election commission met to decide whether a series of spending violations would disqualify Driskell and Burton from the election...
Driskell and Burton each exceeded their spending limit of $100 "by a matter of dollars," said commission member David L. Levy '00. Their overspending, Levy said, occurred by accumulating too many in-kind donations...