Discontent and surprise looms over UWSA election results By Natasha Marar News Editor March 19, 2008 The voters also elected a new vice president administration (VPA), Shae Kavanaugh, VPUA, Mohsin Khan.
More than 2,300 students voted in comparison to 2,176 in 2007, 2,343 in 2006, and 1,981 in 2005. “I would have liked to have seen more, but I’m excited by the turnout that we had,” said Teeuwen.
 Gooch was surprised by the amount of support she received. “I’m just speechless, I didn’t in anyway expect the results to be as overwhelming as they were. I didn’t know it would be as big a margin as it was,” said Gooch in reference to her win over current vice president university affairs (VPUA) Zach Cranny. “That sort of support in and of itself was the most amazing to me.” >> | VPFO winner disqualified over the weekend, cites malicious election results By D'Arcy Bresson Editor in Chief March 19, 2008 UWSA elections were held last week despite concerns about policy infractions and one winner was disqualified as a direct result.
Gooch was surprised by her landslide victory and some voters were even surprised to see a referendum question regarding control of the Lance. However, the biggest surprise came over the weekend when VPFO winner Tosin Bello was told he was disqualified.
Bello was disqualified based on the discretion of the Electoral Monitoring Committee even though he did not exceed the allowable limit of demerit points outlined in the new system. >>
 | | Campus Kiss | | UWSA voting system contested By Natasha Marar News Editor March 19, 2008 The UWSA is being questioned about its decision to implement online voting for last week’s general elections, but the CRO’s office and IT Services maintain that it is a safe and effective system.
Online voting was first introduced for UWSA elections last fall.
“The October [by-]elections was our first run at this so we expected some learning process,” said Richard Dumala, manager of Web Services Group.
 Shiladitya Chakrabarti, a computing consultant for IT Services and designer of the UWSA’s online voting system added that, “There were no privacy problems, but we had some technical problems with the servers overloading.”
Like the by-elections, the general elections also suffered from a slight server overload on Wednesday night that prevented students from voting for a couple of hours. >> |
