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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...
...questions don't end here. Why did the commission wait until last Wednesday--the last day of voting--to investigate alleged spending violations when those same violations were reported by other candidates since that Monday? Why, when reports of possible commission misconduct began to surface after the election, were the public election rules removed from the commission's Web site? And why did candidates' financial reports, which were made publicly available during the election, contain marked differences in detail and rigor...
...election commission is so unsure about the application of its own rules that it gives one response one day and the opposite the next, it should become a immediate concern of the new leaders of the council. We call upon Driskell and Burton to clear up this confusion through a public statement about their campaign's finances. Furthermore, we urge the council to re-examine the rules and procedures of the election commission so that it can become a truly accountable and responsible body...
...very much into our music have mostly expanded beyond our initial categories. There are plenty of people who like Phish just because the music is good, and whose collections also include Miles Davis and the Go-Go's (well, maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking...
...day after the election results were released, under heavy interrogation from council members and other candidates, EC representative David L. Levy '00 changed his story...