ASM elections, like most things ASM does, are largely ignored.
Their elections have at least a tinge of corruption and are loaded
with rhetoric. This time, ASM somehow convinced an impressive 21
percent of freshmen to vote in last week’s poorly-advertised fall
elections. ASM reports this to be a freshman record. But in true
ASM style, something had to go wrong.

The 2,000-plus student votes cast were not tabulated. DoIT,
referred to by some as “DoNot” for their reputation among students
as being largely unhelpful, claims full responsibility for this
error.

ASM was almost out of the clear for this mistake and can even
improve the makeup elections, mainly by making sure every student
actually receives an e-mail notifying them of the elections. But,
alas, ASM decides to do the illogical.

The “new” elections will be new in the sense that all the voting
for the two freshmen seats, the SSFC seat and the two referendum
questions, must be redone. However, they are not “new” in the sense
that no new candidates can be added to the ballot. But, they will
be “new” in the sense that all the alleged election violations and
complaints against campaigning in the original election will simply
be dismissed. It will not be “new” in the sense that old violations
will go unpunished.

Did you follow all that? We didn’t think so. Welcome to ASM.