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The candidates for Undergraduate Council president and vice president listened last Monday night as Election Commission (EC) chair Michael L. Taylor ’08 read aloud eight single-spaced pages of rules governing this year’s campaign.
Tasked with perhaps the most thankless jobs of election season, the members of the commission say that their work is dirty, but that someone has to do it. The epic read-aloud is emblematic of the EC’s role.
Taylor and the commission ultimately voted to lift the ban on e-mail campaigning this year, but the practice is now tightly regulated: E-mails must include a disclaimer identifying the campaign, similar to how federal candidates approve messages at the end of television advertisements.
While making sure that every single poster put up by every single campaign follows the letter of the law may seem like a daunting task for a seven-person commission, chairs say that the campaigns usually enforce the rules themselves by alerting the EC to their competitors’ violations...
According to Taylor, the commission will often receive notification of a violation “within minutes” of its occurrence.