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A formal investigation into the integrity of the December USG vice presidential election has resulted in the need for a revote.
The investigation found that several USG members had access to the original vote results before calling to cancel a scheduled revote, according to an investigation document obtained by The Daily Princetonian from a USG member familiar with the situation.
According to the document, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) confirmed that some USG members were able to view election results once they were verified by the Registrar's Office through a USG e-mail account, usg@princeton.edu, which is accessible to USG president Josh Weinstein '09 and several other USG members. Usg@ is a separate account from usgvote@, the latter of which only accessible to the senior elections manager and USG IT committee chair.
The documents also said that because OIT performed a scheduled maintenance deletion of access records on Dec. 16, it could not determine whether Weinstein actually accessed the records.
The investigation was conducted by elections manager Sophie Jin '11, current USG vice president Mike Wang '10 and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne. In the end, Jin decided that in light of the findings, a revote is necessary.
Michael Weinberg '11 was the winner of the original vote against Nick DiBerardino '11.
"Given that Mr. Weinstein was actively involved in Mr. Weinberg's campaign, there is concern that prior knowledge of the election results may have been influenc[ing] the integrity of the interactions and motives that led up to the Senate decision on December 9, 2008," the document states.
The investigation was prompted by a challenge from Class of 2011 senator George Tsivin. At the USG Senate meeting on Dec. 9 at which the revote was cancelled, Tsivin said that he believed Weinstein may have seen the results of the vice presidential race before actively pushing for a meeting to cancel the revote. Tsivin submitted a formal request to challenge the election.
Former senior elections manager Braeden Kepner-Kraus '10 said at the Dec. 9 Senate meeting that only votes from two class years had been verified when Weinstein had asked other members of the USG to call for a meeting to cancel the revote. The investigation documents indicate, however, that by 4 p.m., three class years' worth of results had been verified and thus were theoretically accessible to Weinstein.
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