Word: ec
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...EC was formed in 1994 out of concerns that allowing the UC to govern its own race presented a conflict of interest...
...Composed of three UC and three non-UC members plus a chair, the EC is charged with publicizing the elections, monitoring campaign spending, and—most prominently—making and enforcing the rules that campaigns must follow...
...Given its wide latitude to affect the outcome of the race, the EC has become as vulnerable to criticism as the candidates themselves...
...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...
...They would have their campaign staffers go around campus with video cameras so they could get video evidence of campaign violations occurring,” says Jonathan D. Einkauf ’06, who chaired the EC...