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...Without us students wouldn’t know about the option,” Roche said of HRL’s campaign to publicize the refund...
Rosenthal disagreed, stating that the refund option is “made very clear in information to students...
...would be wrong to say that that’s an option we’ve been looking for,” he said...
...essential component of any democratic lot—a space for abstention. In an election where so much is shared by the three respective campaigns, voters who find all of the candidates for each position uninspiring are left out in the cold with respect to choice: Their only option is not to cast a ballot and to forfeit their right to have a say. In any democratic system, there ought to be a clear difference between an informed abstention and an outright decision to stay away from the polls. The two reflect very different attitudes toward voting and ought...
...ungraciously informs the would-be abstainer that his effort to refrain from voting is not well-taken. With no way of simultaneously casting a ballot and abstaining from a decision, voters who cannot make a decision on next year’s council leaders are left with only one option: not voting. The current state of the council’s balloting process forces into a single category both those voters who feel unrepresented by what they perceive as an inadequate selection of candidates and those who are genuinely apathetic. In an environment such as Harvard, where voter apathy...