With four of the five candidates for this year’s Student Association presidential elections being write-ins, SA’s Board of Elections and Membership has revised the guidelines for acceptable votes.

SA elections begin Monday and run through Thursday. Presidential candidate Aysha Seedat and her running mate, Jane Hong, are the only candidates who will appear on the ballot.

Write-in responses that will be accepted as a vote for a candidate include:

—The first name or nickname of a candidate

—The first and last name of a candidate

—The last name of a candidate

—The last name of presidential and vice presidential candidates

—The spelling of names close to enough to where they are agreed upon by the Board of Elections and Membership.

Write-in responses that will not be accepted as a vote include: solely the vice presidential candidate’s first, last or first and last name, as well as names that are misspelled so that the Board of Elections and Membership “cannot discern the intent of the vote.”

Voting will be done through MySlice and votes will be cast for president and vice president, comptroller and student representatives.

Published on April 12, 2015 at 6:59 pm

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