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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...
...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 way when Driskell-Burton flyers appeared in first-year mailboxes. This failure to investigate the matter is especially disturbing because rival presidential candidate Sterling P.A. Darling '01 earlier requested permission from the College to do the same thing--and was denied...
Driskell and Burton have been accused of both overspending their $100 limit and committing an ad-boardable offense by stuffing first-year mailboxes with their fliers...
...expected that there would be at least two clear frontrunners, and I felt like we were one of them," she said. "I expected first place and second place to be really close, though...
...members say they were unaware of the actual wording of the rules. At first they said the campaign was allowed to return enough materials to bring them back under the $100 limit...