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Current Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:51:11 -0400
Write-ins show a lack of pride in student elections
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TO THE EDITOR:
In POLI 100, we’re taught that our votes don’t count in presidential elections. While this may be true at the national level, it’s clearly not true in student body president votes.
The breakdown of the 6.3 percent of write-in votes in Tuesday’s election was extremely disappointing. It’s true that some candidates run earnestly on write-in votes, but options like “James Bond” and “Beyonce’s baby” are clearly not.
The focal point of the graphic, “a large ham sandwich,” received more than five votes as a write-in candidate.
Whether or not the people who wrote in joke answers in the election would have voted for Longest or another candidate, the fact that a sandwich – and one that’s not even kosher! – received more votes than the difference by which he lost sends a bad message about students’ pride in their university.
If I were Longest, I’d be pretty pissed at losing by a large ham sandwich.
Meghan DeMaria ’13 Classical Civilizations
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6 comments
I proudly voted for write-in jokes whenever Nash Keune was not running.
Unfortunately, I would submit to you that student government is the joke here. In fact, it is one part of Carolina that I am absolutely NOT proud of.
I do believe the burden of proof is on you to explain why a bloated group of self-indulgent narcissists who receive stipends from our student fee money in return for doing nothing useful deserve anything more than our mockery and derision.
I’m extremely disappointed that only 6.3 percent of voters had the testicular fortitude to vote for candidates (eg large ham sandwich) that would do more for UNC than the cadre of self-aggrandizing shills that populate student government
-Former “self-aggrandizing shill”
Is that you, Nash Keune? Just so you know, I voted for you in 2010 because our campus STILL NEEDS NARWHALS!
And to UNC Alum: Stipend? Money?! There’s a monetized INCENTIVE INVOLVED?! If I’d have known that, I would have run in 2010, but for the same reason Nic Cage did Ghost Rider-for the money.
And what precisely is there to be proud of about these elections?
Large ham sandwich, you may have lost SBP, but I want you to be my boyfriend.
Seriously, student government is worthless.
“I do believe the burden of proof is on you to explain why a bloated group of self-indulgent narcissists who receive stipends from our student fee money in return for doing nothing useful deserve anything more than our mockery and derision.”
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