Word: races
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Some of these violations would have been serious enough to warrant the pair's disqualification from the race...
...next day, after Driskell and Burton had claimed an easy victory in the race, three other election commissioners acknowledged that overspending had occurred but said that the commission had agreed not to penalize the candidates at such a late stage in the election. Election commissioner David L. Levy '00 told the public in an e-mail that the commission "allowed [Driskell and Burton] to return unused campaign materials to bring themselves under spending limits"--a statement that is logically incongruous with existing council rules...
...seems unclear about whether the Driskell-Burton ticket actually exceeded this limit. This ambiguity and the EC's questionable response have fueled speculation on the council that the ticket should have been disqualified from the race...
According to rules posted on the EC Web site, spending more than $100 should immediately result in disqualification from the race. The only way a candidate can exonerate him or herself after exceeding the limit is if it was exceeded by the payment of penalty fines imposed...
...police officers who threaten the three Canadians who decide to rally to Carter's cause. And as if we weren't more than inundated with inspirational themes, we even have a parallel story of another poor black boy Lesra Martin (Vicellous Shannon) who also has to overcome hardships of race, and who becomes a good friend of Carter after reading his book...