Grievances
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works at the Commentator.
“I felt he would enter and cause
hostility,” she said. “He would be
adding tension that was not needed.”
She added that she had never
heard of a law that would require
the elections board to let members
of the media attend, but she told Ja
cobson that if he could show her
proof that such a law existed, he
would more than likely be allowed
into the office. Jacobson did not
show her the law, she said.
While the Commentator is seek
ing judgment from the Constitution
Court, the candidates themselves,
unlike in past years, have been
willing to resolve their problems
out of court so far.
Like Jacobson, former ASUO Ex
ecutive candidate John Ely was un
happy with the ballot-counting
process, but for a different reason.
He said the number of votes he and
running mate Hayes Hurwitz re
ceived would probably have been
i higher if there had not been techni
cal problems with DuckWeb during
the primary election.
He said heavy system traffic.be
cause of online class registration
caused errors when some people
tried to submit their computer ballot.
Although Ely plans to go to the
University Computing Center to see
how many of the intended votes for
his ticket were actually recorded,
he said he won’t file a grievance.
“I’m not making a case out of it be
cause obviously, if it happened to me,
it happened to everyone,” he said.
Hight said the elections board has
encouraged candidates to find oth
er ways to resolve their complaints
besides filing grievances, and board
members have tried to be in the of
fice more to handle concerns and
answer questions in person.
“A lot of times if people ask
first, then there’s no basis for a
complaint to be made,” she said.
She said the elections board had
already resolved “a couple of situ
ations that could possibly have
been grievances.”
At a mandatory meeting before
campaigning began, the elections
board explained to the candidates
the elections rules that are perpetu
ally broken and gave each ticket a
copy of the guidelines for campaign
ing in University Housing, which
Hight said has been a source of con
fusion for candidates in the past.
Eric Bailey, who ran for ASUO
president this year and last year,
said one reason candidates
haven’t filed grievances this
year may be that many of them
know each other, which makes
it easier for them to discuss
problems in person rather than
filing a grievance.
Bailey said the elections board
this year was too lenient in some
cases with candidates who had vi
olated campaign rules, but he said
he was glad the election has not
been delayed by grievances.
“Overall, I think the (primary)
election went very smoothly, espe
cially considering there were so
many candidates, and so much
could have gone wrong,” he said.
E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell
at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
Money
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Ritchie and Babkes sold about
125 T-shirts bearing their names to
students they thought represented
them well. Other funds went to
ward publicity, including fliers
that they distributed on campus
and a full-page advertisement in
the Emerald.
Pilliod. and Buzbee raised much
of their campaign funds by sending
letters asking for donations. While
they also aimed for high publicity,
they worked basic economics into
their equation for how much to
spend on the campaign.
“We heard the average campaign
runs about $1,000 to fund,” Pilliod
said. “We used cost-effective meas
ures to conserve but optimize our
visibility,” she said.
Pilliod said she and Buzbee tried
to save money by laminating
posters that could be reused and
worn on backpacks, and by selling
handmade-headbands. Like Ritchie
and Babkes, T-shirts were their
biggest expense.
Ritchie, the son of Northwest
jeweler Harry Ritchie, did not want
his family’s financial backing to
steal the stage from the focus of
their campaign.
“We stand by our platform and
want (voters) to know money has
no effect on our ability to lead,”
Ritchie said.
Turning the clock back to elec
tions in years past, there hasn’t
been a link drawn from increased
funding boosting votes.
“The irony in spending is that
the ones who spend the most don’t
usually win,” ASUO Elections Co
ordinator Courtney Hight said.
She said it was not uncommon
in the past few years for a ticket to
spend $1,500 or more on the pri
mary and general election com
bined.
Regardless of the amount collect
ed, ASUO hopefuls from both sides
said the issues candidates run on
are more important than how much
they spend.
“It does take some amount of
money to publicize names, but ul
timately it comes down to the best
candidates,” Buzbee said.
“We want them to look at the is
sues,” Babkes agreed, “not the money.”
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com.
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