Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But as the dust settles after the council's fifth general election, disturbing questions remain about how the election was conducted and overseen by the Election Commission. Like any government, the council has a lengthy list of rules and regulations contained within its constitution, including a provision for a neutral...
The commission is responsible for publicizing the dates of the election, coordinating the candidacy forms, tabulating votes and, most importantly, overseeing the campaigns to ensure that all candidates abide by the rules of the commission and of the University as a whole. All candidates are required to submit detailed expense...
That night, one election commissioner told The Crimson that Driskell and Burton had exceeded their spending limit of $100. If this were true, election commission rules stipulate that they should have been immediately removed from the ballot. Candidates can only return unused campaign materials to offset fines for lesser election...
The 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...
Later that day, election commissioners retracted their previous statements regarding the overspending and claimed that the candidates had never been over the limit in the first place. Such a scenario is conceivable, depending on how much the commission decided to charge the campaign for in-kind donations such as lemonade...