Voters who tried to select the sole candidate for academics chair found that they could not do so and hence could not submit their ballots.
Shortly thereafter, the voting website was taken down, with a note that it would be available at 1:45 p.m. Voting resumed at around 2 p.m., when USG president Josh Weinstein ’09 sent an e-mail to the student body alerting it that the site was available again. Voting ends Tuesday at noon.
“In previous elections, we have had elections delays because of difficulty with the person who was running the election,” senior elections manager Braeden Kepner-Kraus ’10 said at a USG meeting on Sunday night. “This election, in order to circumvent that, I decided to run the entire web survey myself. Unfortunately, there were some glitches left over from last time, and no one knew how to fix it.”
He and IT committee chair Phil Stern ’09 realized Sunday morning that the candidate lists for the questions had not auto-generated. They then had to manually input all the data, Kepner-Kraus explained, adding, “These types of glitches should not happen in the future” because the system has now been set up.
In April 2008, the results for the USG election were delayed due to computer problems. USG webmaster Bruce Halperin ’09 had changed the scripting language in the online ballot, so the Registrar’s office couldn’t verify the election results by the time they were scheduled to be released. Halperin said in an e-mail that he was not involved in the current election.