[15] in UA Discuss
Detailed Election Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Oct 6 14:29:43 2009
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: ua-elect@mit.edu
cc: ua-discuss@mit.edu
Hi-
I want to formally complain about the Election Commission's decision to
not released the detailed election results, as has been done in almost
every prior election. (As of the last time the Election Commission website
was updated, which is sadly back in 2007, all the results from 2000-2007
were released to the public; I believe newer results are/were stored on
the vote.mit.edu server, so I can not tell if they were ever available.)
It really hurts the UA's transparency and causes people to believe that
the Election Commission has something to hide from the voters and
candidates. Is there any reasoning for not releasing the results? The
explanation that Sun gave to The Tech that he wanted to "preserve the
privacy of all candidates" is specious; I would expect the losing
candidates to be among the most vocal in support of releasing results.
--Quentin
UA CIT
