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Discuss “Election board and chair drop the ball”

Last week, as Carnegie Mellon students voted for next year?s Student Body President and Vice President, they may have run into some unexpected problems ? the online voting page crashing, for example. Or perhaps they discovered that they were unable to read the platforms for some of the main candidates, and were therefore completely unaware of the positions of these potential leaders. Maybe, when they were asked to vote on a referendum that could approve a $5 fee for a collegiate newspaper program, they noticed that the facts about the program were wrong, including the title. If they returned to the page later, they might have noticed the referendum?s description had changed completely, or even disappeared.

If they followed misc.market, they...

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