Weird…..AS Elections Cancelled
A sign stands in front of an empty voting booth after A.S. cancelled elections due to problems in the online voting system. In a released statement, A.S. said paper ballots will be used in the proposed reschedule elections, which will take place Nov. 12 and 13. Danielle Directo/ Daily Sundial
Once again CSUN Associated Students’ electronic voting system had some major glitches and the elections were cancelled. After spending about $14,000 on elections the system still failed. It failed because the campus consultant who built it did a bad job at it and no longer works there.
Then Student Affairs was left to deal with the problem, which they obviously didn’t.
One of the main reasons why the Elections Committee didn’t want to go through with the elections was because some of the ballots already had candidates pre-selected. And because some students wouldn’t notice that, only voting for their friend the committee felt the votes weren’t credible.
Check out the video on this page to see the problem.
This came after the Sundial notified them of the issue.
The other problem arose when students would preview the ballot before voting. After they were done previewing it and they pushed the back button the program said they had already voted when they didn’t.
Now the students who voted must re-cast their vote on Nov. 12 and 13 for their Senators. As it was 1,590 students voted one Tuesday and that’s not including Wednesday. That about as much as those who voted during both days of the last election. It’s highly unlikely whether they will get the same results using paper ballots.
