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...picture that has unfolded, after the remaining four EC members voted Sunday to de-classify their meetings, is of four Election Commissioners who worried that insecure election software might have compromised the vote tally...
...meeting was focused on the concerns of the EC, but the controversial e-mail from Thursday night, signed by UC Vice President Kia J. McLeod ’10, also came up in the discussion...
...concerns. Specifically, the Election Commission has demonstrated gross negligence and incompetence throughout this entire process. Despite the interconnectedness of these events, it is important to distinguish the actions of the Election Commission from those of the UC itself. In other words, the blame for this embarrassment lies with the EC, not necessarily with the UC as a whole...
When members of the EC suspected that the election results may have been tampered with—and subsequently decided to decertify those results—this was in keeping with a desire to ensure the election results were as fair as possible, and we agree with that decision. That said, however, EC officials should have been absolutely certain from the beginning as to which individuals had access to the results via the voting interface. Moreover, these questions should not have arisen at the last minute, although we recognize that Brad A. Seiler ’10, the former EC...
Worse than this unnecessary uncertainty on election night, however, was the gross lack of judgment the EC exercised in releasing confidential information to Kia J. McLeod ’10, current UC vice president and known supporter of the Hayward-Zhang campaign, among others. Why, for example, did members of the council know the vote tallies before the EC released them...