It’ll be no joke this April Fools’ Day when candidates run yet again for Student Association executive board positions.
The election times of the Dickinson Community re-vote were finalized Wednesday night after the Assembly approved the Elections Committee’s voting report.
All candidates will appear on the ballot from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, and Thursday, April 2, during voting in the Dickinson Dining Hall. Only Dickinson residents will re-vote. Votes from all other communities will stand.
After a grievance was filed, last Monday’s runoff elections for president and vice president for finance were canceled. The Student Association judicial board found that Dickinson voters had their names crossed off of a voting roster instead of, as the Association’s bylaws prescribe, having the voters themselves sign the roster. All 256 Dickinson votes were thrown out.
Usually members of each community council oversee voting in their respective community. This time, however, the elections committee will poll-sit “since last time problems came about because poll-sitters weren’t getting signatures,” said Mary Leonardo, elections committee chair.
Meanwhile, vice president for academic affairs candidate Shaun Hiller has filed three grievances on this year’s election. Hiller’s grievances accuse the initially-winning vice president for academic affairs candidate Daniel Rabinowitz of improper postering in Newing College and the New University Union. He also filed grievances against Leonardo, saying that she unlawfully supported at least one candidate on Facebook, but not all, and that a person other than a member of the elections committee handled a ballot box.
The elections committee will formally hear the postering complaint on Sunday. The judicial board has not yet assigned a date to hear Leonardo and Hiller about grievances against Leonardo, but judicial board chair Jonathan Cogan hopes for a meeting by Tuesday. Neither Cogan nor Leonardo said they could comment on how hearings could affect the re-vote.