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Discuss “Technical difficulties: Elections freeze up on students”

Due to technical difficulties, student government elections have been postponed to today, April 30, through Wednesday, May 2. The postponement, the second in the past three weeks, is the result of the latest in a series of issues Student Senate has had to combat over the past few weeks, from the original lack of candidate interest to the overloading and consequent shutdown of its elections website.

The elections were originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 9 but were rescheduled due to lack of candidates.

The Elections Board received some petitions but was still below the minimum threshold.

“The elections were really poorly advertised [this year],” said Karl Sjogren, a senior in public policy and the current student body president. “Hardly...

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