Deja vu: Election woes plague GWU’s Student Association
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: GWU, Kyle Boyer, Student Association
Hang in there, Kyle
Remember that time the GUSA Election Commission brought chaos to this year’s presidential election by disqualifying two of the tickets the night before the GUSA primaries for dubious reasons? Well GWU’s Student Association is in the midst of a similar crisis.
On March 12, GWU’s Joint Election Commission tossed current SA Vice President Kyle Boyer from the runoff election ballot, in which he was to run against two other candidates after the student body almost, almost, almost elected him president—in the February 26th primaries, he missed garnering 40 percent of votes by two votes.
To be sure, his campaign crimes are a little more sinister than hanging campaign posters in Darnall:
The Joint Elections Committee found Boyer, a junior, guilty of failing to report the use of a friend’s car on H Street, which he borrowed to display posters, play music and dance on during the general election. SA presidential candidates are required to report the fair market value of all items used for their campaign. The total value cannot exceed $1,000 for each candidate.
The estimated expenditures for the use of the car – determined using rental car pricing – pushed Boyer over the $1,000 limit by $92.63, adding an additional three violation points and disqualifying him from the runoff election. Boyer was assessed a total five violations – including one for Facebook ads – Thursday morning, bringing his violation total to eight.
Boyer has appealed, but members of the JEC are standing by their decision, with its vice chair, Jake Chervisnky, writing, “For the plaintiff to be successful in his complaint, he must be able to demonstrate some failure of the Committee to exercise a sound, reasonable and legal process …. The plaintiff has failed to list a single fact, alleged or admitted, sufficient to establish this burden.”
To me, it sounds like a lot of bologna. If he’d driven the car through the streets of Foggy Bottom calling out “Vote for Kyle” with a bullhorn, that would be one thing. But he just wanted to dance!
Photo from GW Hatchet.
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He did drive the car through the streets of Foggy Bottom on the last night of the election yelling of course “Vote for Kyle!”
Whaat? that’s not reported anywhere.
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