Student Senate debates election changes
By Clare Lennon | Jan. 16, 2012Members of the Student Senate's election codes revisions committee refined their proposed changes at meeting Sunday afternoon.
Members of the Student Senate's election codes revisions committee refined their proposed changes at meeting Sunday afternoon.
This past summer, when many students were gone studying abroad, doing internships and relaxing at home, the Unite Party was busy pushing through corrupt, tyrannical legislation. One of the most corrupt changes it made was adding the ability to kill any bill based on its "implication," a virtually meaningless term that the minority argued gave Unite the ability to kill bills it didn't like before the Student Senate got to vote on them.
The Student Senate election validation Tuesday night inducted the 50 members elected in the fall, and it also brought the election of a new Senate President and Senate Pro Tempore.
The UF Supreme Court decided not to invalidate the fall Student Government election procedures after a hearing Monday night.
The Student Senate election results were validated Friday afternoon at a hearing by the Election Commission.
Due to the recent closing of the post office in downtown Gainesville, the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections Office has changed its mailing address.
Library hours and transportation are hot topics in the upcoming fall Student Government elections.
Slating for Student Senate positions closed Tuesday with 595 applicants for 50 seats.
Gainesville residents might have to wait a little longer to find out the day they are supposed to vote for their future leadership.
Gainesville City Commission candidates Todd Chase and Susan Bottcher came out victorious in their election races Tuesday night, officially ending the local election season and putting two new faces in city hall.
Rob Zeller and Susan Bottcher admit that they don’t agree on everything.
After all the votes were tallied and all the precincts accounted for, one candidate gets to go back to work as a winner, while four others have more work to do.
Student Body President-Elect Ben Meyers gave his goodbye speech as senate president Tuesday night but noted that he wasn’t going too far away.
If you want to have a say in who will make decisions for Gainesville, you need to register to vote in Alachua County by Monday.
Although Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting lasted less than an hour, members of the Unite Party and the Progress Party have hours of work ahead of them as elections loom.
City Commissioner Thomas Hawkins wants to be your representative for another three years.
So apparently Keith Olbermann supports Democrats. Fancy that.
New polling data shows that less than 25 percent of the on-campus registered voters turned out to vote this November in the midterm elections.
Election night is over.
The highly contested midterm elections have come to an end, but the parties involved are disagreeing on how students voted.