The Student Union will be hosting its second special election of the semester. These special elections come after the impeachment of Student Union Secretary and Chief of Elections James Feng ’22.
“We will be having one more (and hopefully last!) round of elections this semester,” wrote Jasmyne Jean-Remy, Student Union Chief of Staff, in an email sent out to community members on Oct. 25.
The Student Union will be holding a special election to fill positions in the Executive Board (E-board) and in the Allocations Board. The E-board position available is the Secretary position, formerly held by Feng. This position has only one seat and is open for any individual in the student body to run, according to Jean-Remy’s email.
One of the A-board positions available is the A-board Member for Racial Minority Students. This position is a one-year seat and there are two seats open. Students intending to run for this seat must identify as a part of a racial minority, according to Jean-Remy’s email. The other seats available are as Allocations Board Members. These are three-semester seats and there are currently three seats open. Any member of the student body is allowed to run for this position.
A virtual information session regarding the positions was held on Tuesday, Oct. 26, wrote Jean-Remy in the email, for students to learn more about the roles and responsibilities of the positions. Students with the intent to run for any of the positions had to submit an intent to run and candidate bio to Jean-Remy. Intents to run were due on Tuesday, Oct. 26 and candidate bios were due on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The special elections will take place all day on Thursday, Nov. 4, according to the email. The polls will be available for students starting at 12 a.m. on Nov. 4 and will close 24 hours later.
Part of the reason for Feng’s impeachment involved errors in elections held earlier in the semester, according to a previous Hoot article. Feng failed to provide a set of correct candidate names, including duplicate errors in the documents, after surpassing the deadline to submit them to the administration. There was also an error in providing the correct meeting time for the candidate information session, according to the article.
