Elections
Student Court Decision
The Student Court released its decision today in the VP Academic matter. They allowed the appeal, ordering that Alex Lougheed be disqualified. The Court left the matter of how to fill the vacancy up to the AMS Executive. More to come later, undoubtedly after Council. But, for those interested, the excerpt that outlines the reasoning [...]
Caption Contest
“VP-Admin elect Tristan Markle adding ‘Right to Cheat’ to posters in support of VP-Academic elect Alex Lougheed” This was obviously meant to be public. If you’re not up on the controversy surrounding the VP Academic race, refer to the Ubyssey here and here. The implications of publicly discrediting a fellow executive-elect are unclear, but probably [...]
VP Administration Special Election results
Tristan Markle 446 Shawn Stewart 306 Stephen McCarthy 280 Mike Kushnir 194 Yian Messoloras 189 Stephanie Ryan 104 J Mac The Keg 44 Aaron Palm 42 Congratulations to Tristan! Looks like the knolligarchy managed to swing it for him. Pretty good voter turnout. One more note: EA Brendan Piovesan resigned, effective today. Someone else will [...]
VP Administration post of awesomeness
Candidate analysis, random thoughts, EA deprecation, and who Maayan is voting for all rolled into one glorious post. Well, voting is now on for the re-vote for the fifth AMS executive position. The VP Administration race was cancelled in mid-campaign two weeks ago. Despite the fact that this cancellation was not allowed by AMS code, [...]
oh, come on
This is a wholesale lifting of Alex Lougheed’s facebook note, in which he notices that Stephen McCarthy isn’t on the ballot. How to vote in the AMS Special ElectionThe original can be found here. Props to Alex for: voting at 1am, having eagle eyes, and also wicked MSPaint skills.
AMS Elections: The VP Admin Strikes Back
I’ve had a busy couple days with Ubyssey, work, school, and photoshoots, so I haven’t had much of a chance to post photos. Anyway, these are from Thursday’s debates.The elections start tomorrow: be sure to get the word out and encourage your friends to get informed and get their vote on!Mike Kushnir is now running [...]
Voter Funded Media results!
Well, here they are at long last! The Knoll – $1600UBC Insider – Election Edition – $1500The Devils advocate – $1400Cavalier – $900Let Them Eat Cake – $725UVote – $600The Underground – $600The 432 – $600Plain title: Awesome Content – $75The Radical Beer Tribune – $0Maclean’s On Campus – $0 From the VFM administrator Paul [...]
VP Admininstration nominations – rumor mill
The race for the fifth AMS executive position, VP Administration, was cancelled in mid-campaign due to “campaigning irregularities.” While this cancellation was probably contrary to AMS code, and details were never confirmed by Elections Administrator Brendan Piovesan, a new race is soon to launch. And according to the rumor-mill, and the volume of nomination papers [...]
Student Court challenges, election 2008
The period for the 2008 AM elections was punctuated by numerous irregularities of various sorts. When problems arise in elections, or in other matters of stuff that goes against the AMS Bylaws or Code, complaints can be brought to a group of people called the “student court”. These are seven people, typically law students, that [...]
How to vote in VFM – Interpolated Consensus,WTF?
Voter Funded Media, the contest that accompanied the AMS elections for the second year this year, is an idea that’s meant to award media public funds by the will of the people, thus fostering better journalism, more informed voters, better elected leaders, and healthier democracies. The assumption is that media, as opposed to candidates or [...]
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