Campus Elections Results Thread

Maan (0.00 / 0)

As mentioned, i'm not actually a Texas resident, or even close to UT. But, I gotta say, that from reviewing the Super Mario Brothers site. It's hard to counter their tough stand against Koopas and their Whataburger idea.

Thank you Mario Brothers, but your princess is in another castle.

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by: RBH @ Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 05:17:19 AM UTC

Ticket sidebar for the anti-ticket ticket...? (0.00 / 0)

I'm confused - last year Danielle was the lead author and sponsor of The Election Imporvement Act which attemtps  to mitigate the whole-ticket-carrys-everyone momentum.  Most notably with this reform, ticket names were removed from the ballot and replaced 150 word factual and persuasive statement about the candidate.

Interestingly, when voters cliked the "Vote Here" or other similarly worded link from the IMPACT website, a sidebar was left to the side of the screen with a form of web push-card making sure that the voter knew who was on the IMPACT ticket.  The Election Supervisory Board found them guily of code violation and fined them ~$400. 

How about finding them guilty of hipocracy - originally supporting means of helping more independent candidates when you thought you would be one, and then blatantly skirting the election rules when you realize that you might need such ticket support to win (or at least avoid a runoff).

What a great start to the next term, and an even better lesson to SG candidates and tickets in '07.

Note: As I am sadly not a student anymore and was therefore unable to vote, I do not have direct knowledge of the new voting system.  After hearing of the violation, I turned to friends for the facts.

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by: jwwalthall @ Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 09:06:35 AM UTC

drive (0.00 / 0)

I'm  guessing you and the Daily Texan don't really know people when it comes to elections.  I appreciate you not endorsing me...it gave me more drive to win the ENTIRE two year at large category.

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by: ktsowa @ Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 13:11:08 PM UTC

wow (0.00 / 0)

...such bitterness. 

Though just as last year (as most anyone will tell you) the Texan and any other endorsements do not greatly influence a large enough (oops, sorry) pool of voters to make an impact (oops, sorry again) on who wins any particular seat.  Your election, along with any other at large eletion, can hardly be attributed to any one of the individual candidates 'winning it' for anyone else.

SG Election Reform obviously hasn't changed much of anything in terms of who gets elected and has yet to bring focus to the individual candidates like yourself at the expense of getting sucked up into larger impersonal and eventually irresponsible entities that the day after the election are meaningless because it is the individual members that will work on accomplishing projecs.  I really doubt that there will be issues that come up in the Assembly that IROC or ENOUGH are going to band together with Impact dissidents to defeat some measure.

I mean, seriously, I'm glad you're pshyched, but....

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 20:53:38 PM UTC

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