Student Body President Candidate Rick Ingram will remain on the ballot for Tuesday’s election, the Board of Elections has decided. The board decided against disqualifing Ingram, concluding a widely-watched three-hour forum in which the other candidates, Mary Cooper and Ian Lee, accused Ingram and his staffers of “malicious” campaigning.
Ingram will face at least a $25 fine for inappropriate campaigning, although the Board has not finished its deliberations. Voting begins tonight at midnight, and the results will be announced Tuesday evening. If no candidate wins a majority, the top two vote-getters will move on to a runoff vote Feb. 15.
The hearing was heavily followed on campus Monday night, with at least 50 students packing Gardner 008, where the hearing was held. The Daily Tar Heel received more than 600 viewers on its livestream video of the hearing, and the hashtag #IngramBOE was trending in Chapel Hill Monday night.
Click here to see a video of the hearing.
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