sga candidate disqualification
by: sorority
So as many of you guys know, a candidate for the executive SGA election was disqualified after it was found that she asked her sorority sisters to vote for her, causing her to get about 200 more votes than her rival candidate.
This post is not meant to target the girl or attack her - I have nothing against her and believe she just made an honest mistake. However, I disagree with the whole "petition" to bring her back - rules are rules and she broke them. Had she not posted in the private group, she most likely would not have won. Sure, her sisters will say that they would have voted for her even if she wasn't in their sorority but I'm a little skeptical about that.
Thoughts? Once again, this is not meant to target the individual or her sorority, so please try to be civil and considerate.
#1by: FratStar
The vote total was 340-94 or something like that, so even if all those votes were invalid, she would have still won handily-and I'm sure many of them would've voted even if she didn't post in the group. And who cares if they voted for her because she's in their sorority? Why does that invalidate those votes?
Commentby: @math
If he only got 94 (or something like that )votes from a larger community, the probability that he could have gotten enough votes from phi mu to win fair and squire was next to zero.
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#2by: topsorority
It's good that her sisters showed some support. Trust me, it's not always the case with sororities. Especially top ones.
The main idea behind joining sororities or fraternities is to find a support group. It goes without saying for frats but girls are often too competitive to support someone who is trying to stand out. It should have been expected that she gets her sorority support and noone supposed to know about her group messages. It should have been a private affair.
#3by: whocares
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by: math
You can't actually just say that. If you assume that each of those girls would have voted in the election regardless then you can't give all the votes to one candidate without taking them from the other. You can argue that her posting had a potential 400-vote swing. If those 200 girls aren't influenced (as minor of an influence as it may have been), then you could make the argument that maybe those 200 vote for the other candidate, resulting in a 140-294 vote victory.
Of all the things that have been said this argument has irked me so much because it's just flawed. If you're going to argue in favor of her you can't just say "she would have won anyway".
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