The FACE party will not have to make major changes to its website and RSVP will not have to throw out hundreds of T-shirts after the Board of Elections decided to reverse an earlier ruling.
Student Senate’s Board of Elections made the decision yesterday to allow the FACE and RSVP campaigns to keep the names of disqualified candidates on their campaign materials as long as the candidates are not planning to run a write-in campaign, according to an e-mail from Chauncey Jackson, chairman of the board.
FACE presidential candidate Matthew Wallace said the board’s decision might not have been fair to his party because its original threat of fines would have affected RSVP more than his party.
“It was interesting that the board took it upon itself, with no provocation from (RSVP presidential candidate) Kyle (Triplett), to reverse the decision,” Wallace said.
The board informed the two parties Tuesday that they would have to remove the names of disqualified candidates from all campaign materials by Wednesday. However, a decision had not yet been made about whether disqualified candidates who were not planning write-in campaigns could still be mentioned.
If the board had decided that parties had to remove names of all disqualified candidates, RSVP would have had to stop selling its T-shirts, wasting hundreds of dollars, Triplett said Tuesday.
Yesterday’s reversal effectively nullifies Tuesday’s decision.
Triplett and Wallace both said they are not aware of any of their disqualified candidates who are planning a write-in campaign.
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