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...different outages occurred together, one in our system and the other in the council’s election software,” said Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98. Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 and Election Commission Chair David I. Monteiro ’04 worked with FASCS administrators yesterday to fix the problems...
Election Commission Chair David I. Monteiro ’04 said that he was surprised by the large number of students who signed...
...marred by complaints of disenfranchisement, and the presidential election by the draconian reinterpretation of election bylaws by the council’s Election Commission. It is clear that this past semester’s commission has not served voters or candidates very well. When Commission Chair David I. Monteiro ’04 submits his recap of fall elections in the next few weeks, the council’s new leadership should use these election fiascoes as an opportunity to reevaluate both the rules governing elections and the commission’s operation...
This fall, for example, Monteiro forbid candidates from communicating with the press before official campaigning began, based on an existing rule prohibiting “broadly public” candidacy statements. But council members were able to talk with the press about issues, so in effect, this restriction prevented outsider candidates from communicating with voters. All candidates should be free to announce their intentions whenever they see fit, and the council must revise its bylaws to give everyone this freedom, as well as eliminate the potential for future drastic reinterpretations...
...Monteiro said last night that the move was purely precautionary, and that no students reported problems with the system in the final hours of voting...