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Discuss “Elections Update: Elections rescheduled for September”

After the results of student government’s April 24 election were tampered with and ultimately invalidated, the prospective candidates for Student Body President, Vice President, and Vice President of Finance voted against holding another election during finals week in favor of scheduling the next – and hopefully last – election next September.

On May 4 the 1933 votes placed by students during the previous election would not be able to be retrieved due to tampering of the electronic key used to encrypt and decrypt the results.

The details of the tampering, "based on the way the judicial process works, may not ever be revealed,” said Meg Richards, senior computer science major and Elections Board chair, at the board’s May 8 meeting.

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