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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...
That night, one election commissioner told The Crimson that Driskell and Burton had exceeded their spending limit of $100. If this were true, election commission rules stipulate that they should have been immediately removed from the ballot. Candidates can only return unused campaign materials to offset fines for lesser election violations...
...next day, after Driskell and Burton had claimed an easy victory in the race, three other election commissioners acknowledged that overspending had occurred but said that the commission had agreed not to penalize the candidates at such a late stage in the election. Election commissioner David L. Levy '00 told the public in an e-mail that the commission "allowed [Driskell and Burton] to return unused campaign materials to bring themselves under spending limits"--a statement that is logically incongruous with existing council rules...
Later that day, election commissioners retracted their previous statements regarding the overspending and claimed that the candidates had never been over the limit in the first place. Such a scenario is conceivable, depending on how much the commission decided to charge the campaign for in-kind donations such as lemonade from a dining hall and buttons from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance. But, according to three election commissioners, the commission never really made an official decision last Wednesday night, opting instead simply to consider it a moot point...
The commission's mishandling of the spending issue only scratches the surface of what seems to be a complacent attitude toward alleged violations by the Driskell-Burton ticket. Although commission rules dictate that candidates who commit a University offense should be immediately disqualified, the commission seemed to look the other...