USG senate discusses changes to elections handbook
Katherine OhThe Undergraduate Student Government senate discussed changes to the elections handbook during the weekly meeting on Sunday.The senate voted to split the elections handbook into two separate handbooks, one governing candidacy and the other governing referenda specifically.The senate then approved voting and passing thresholds for referenda, making it necessary that at least one-third of the student body vote on a referendum for that referendum to be on the ballot and that of those students, more than 50 percent must vote in favor for the referendum to pass.Some members of the senate said that it would be desirable to have referenda only during regular USG election cycles instead of allowing students to vote on referenda at any point during the year.“I think this is a reasonable action to take,” U-councilor Ethan Marcus 18 said.
