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Last week's Undergraduate Council elections went off without any of the usual bureaucratic hitches. The Fentrice D. Driskell '01-John A. Burton '01 ticket won the presidency and vice presidency handily with over 1,000 votes each. Undergraduates voted to downsize the council to 50 members and rejected a proposal to increase the term-bill fee. The results were announced fairly promptly after midnight on Dec. 15. All this, and ucvote didn't even crash...
Last Wednesday evening--the last day of voting--the commission met to address possible over-spending and campaign violations by the Driskell-Burton ticket. Possible violations alleged by other campaigns include the stuffing of the first-year mailboxes--a potential University offense, which would merit immediate disqualification--and overspending through use of in-kind donations...
...Matthew M. Segneri '03, who is a member of the commission, maintained that position yesterday, saying that Driskell and Burton exceeded their spending limit...
However, Levy said yesterday evening that Driskell and Burton had never overspent. He said the commission's mistake was the result of "confusion" brought on by a long and stressful night before the election...
Among council members, the controversy over the alleged overspending has led to criticism of the election commission for perhaps allowing Driskell and Burton to get away with breaking the rules...