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USG elections audit uncovers error; Class of 2012 Senate seat vacated
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Class of 2012 senator Becca Lee will vacate her seat after it was discovered that hundreds of votes were disregarded in last December’s election because of a software glitch, USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 announced in an e-mail to ...
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FAIL! can "1337h4xx" yaro be elections chair please?
Breaking News! USG is incompetent. Abolish all their funding and let's give it to a better cause: Barry's socialist agenda.
Connor should be expelled from this institution for his gross incompetence. He sullies Princeton's storied history.
Connor is not behind any of this, but he is trying to fix it. If that means his administration discovers more errors before fixing the main problem, then so be it. At least they're facing up to problems rather than ignoring them.
Yarovosky is a tool
@ '12
Perhaps, but he would be a friendly and useful tool. Not a waste-of-breath, please-stop-talking-now tool. A refreshing change from most of the USG?
Abolish the USG and return money to the students. The USG has failed to represent the will of the student body toward the administration and has failed to allocate resources to the betterment of the student body.
Disband it now.
Personal interaction with USG members and class officers makes this not surprising at all. The problems with referendum tallies, the elections manager stepping down, and other recent elections headlines are not a result of technical difficulties, and the OIT appears to be a scapegoat used by the USG. The USG is riddled with inefficiencies, negligent management and, most importantly, corruption.
The current system as designed by the USG and their mishaps will allow the 2012 and USG presidents (both voted by popularity - lets not forget the Weinstein scandal) to select a senator of their liking. Similarly, their automatic memberships to the Honor committee allow them to further select members and review honor code cases according to their bias.
noobs
you can't blame connor for this. if anything, give him credit for calling for audits for all elections going back to 2002, and then going public with this information. he could easily have let the issue rest or, when he discovered the error, kept it silent and internal in the usg.
i give CDY a lot of credit for tackling the mistakes of his predecessors, over which he had no control