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...condone the manner in which the Undergraduate Council conducts its annual election. In more than one house, a group of students apparently thought that it was funny to run a friend as a write-in candidate as a joke. In some cases these friends were aware of their candidacies, in others they were not, but in every single case it was a blatant abuse of the political process...
...does not actively try to prevent its elections from turning into such a farce. Who knows how many votes were intentionally or unknowingly wasted on these candidates? Perhaps some write-in candidates were actually seriously interested in serving on the UC, but I am quite confident that the vast majority either ran on a lark or were just the result of friends voting for friends...
...Undergraduate Council should change its election procedures such that frivolous candidates are disqualified before ballots are even tabulated, and if possible even before polling is concluded. Candidates who violate election rules, who frequently but not always are the write-in candidates, should be dealt with in a similar manner...
...Mather House, members of the House Council actually assisted write-in candidates to violate UC election rules by displaying their posters at the polling table. Yet, the Undergraduate Council did not disqualify the successful write-in candidate, citing "a lack of definitive evidence...
Hoffman, one of several write-in candidates that succeeded in winning a seat on the council last week, allegedly placed position papers on the table with those of the officially registered candidates...