The Young Alumni Trustee (YAT) primary election will be extended by one day after a technical glitch initially barred several members of the Class of 2010 from voting, Associate Director of Alumni Education Leslie Rowley said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian today.
YAT primary voting will now close at 11:59 p.m. Friday, Rowley said. The Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students will announce the extension in an e-mail to all seniors Monday.
After voting opened on Friday, the voting website failed to recognize some seniors as eligible voters.
Rowley said in an e-mail to YAT candidates late Saturday evening that the Office of Information Technology (OIT) had diagnosed and fixed the coding error that triggered the problem. She also said that students who had reported problems with voting had been personally notified that the fix had been made.
Response to the technical glitch was delayed due to Friday’s snow storm.
“Staff in the Alumni Council have sent notices to OIT throughout the day, [but] OIT has not yet been able to determine the source of the problem within the system,” University spokeswoman Cass Cliatt ’96 said in an e-mail to the 'Prince' Friday.
She noted that many administrative offices were closed on Friday due to the snow, and the lack of technical personnel had also prevented the Council from posting a notice about the voting issue on the YAT election website.
On Friday, before the problem had been fixed, one YAT candidate unable to access the voting website said that the glitch was unlikely to directly affect any one candidate.
“It’s not like any specific person is going to get hurt by this,” he said. “If anything, it’ll just mean that less seniors will vote in general.”
Candidates interviewed for this article were granted anonymity because of strict campaign regulations.
But, the candidate added, the close of voting should be postponed to make up for the delayed start.
“They’re losing today, and really the whole weekend,” he said. “I won’t be able to vote until Monday. People won’t be able to vote until Monday if they couldn’t get into the system.”
Another candidate said on Friday that she did not think the delay would be significant because “the people who tried to vote today are the people who are on top of it” and are unlikely to be deterred from participating in the election because they have to wait until Monday.
“I think maybe they could extend [the voting period] a day or two, but I don’t think it’s that necessary,” she said.
Under the normal voting schedule, the top three candidates from the primary would be announced on March 9 and advance to the final vote, which is open to members of the classes of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The final winner is usually announced during Reunions. The winner will join the 40-member Board of Trustees for a four-year term that begins on July 1.
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