The election polls closed at 11:59 p.m. last Thursday, wrapping up Baruch's first online Undergraduate Student Government election and declaring the New Baruch Alliance as the winner of almost all positions.
Over 2,500 students participated in the election, smashing previous year's totals, but at a cost.
"There's no sanctity of a voting booth," said Aylman. "You have thousands of voting sites."
Past elections were housed in rented voting booths and strict security measures were enforced. Students displayed proper identification before entering a closed booth.
"Votes were between you, God and the machine," Aylman said.
The online elections were a trade-off, exchanging security for accessibility, according to Aylman.
"It was an inherent weakness of the system, (with) no way to make a useful rule," he said.
The risk seemed to have paid off for students as more voted than ever before, but there are complaints of a lack of security.
The beaten One Baruch party filed a complaint with the Student Election Review Committee, arguing that NBA coerced students to vote for them.
According to Aylman, NBA's tactics broke no rules when it set up a voting station on the Vertical Campus' second floor lobby, offering students the opportunity to vote.
"If you're going to vote in a public space," said Aylman, "it's no longer a private situation."
SERC will meet today at 3 p.m., where they will hear candidates' arguments and certify the elections. Aylman said that SERC looks at voter turnout when certifying an election. "It has to be a full representation of the students," he said.
In response to One Baruch's official complaint, President-elect Tanvir Hossain of New Baruch Alliance disputed the claims that his party forced students to vote along their lines.
"While people claim there was voter coercion, we dispute that fact," Hossain said. "We clearly stated our platform and spoke to each individual."
Aylman expects the results to be certified unless a serious issue is uncovered. "I'll be shocked if (SERC) overturns an election," he said.
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As a voter, I must say that their landslide victory did not come as a surprise. I thought that the party's tactics for educating potential voters of their platform through one-on-one and impromptu Q&As made quite a difference in raking the votes in their favor. Candidates freely interacted with voters, showing that they were down-to-earth, friendly, and pretty serious about their cause. [When asked to show their actual support to their party by doing 10 push-ups, candidates and supporters alike gladly pushed (with some going as much as 40)] The fact that NBA also had voting stations situated right by their campaigning site helped by offering potential voters the opportunity to actually stick to their word when they claim that they will vote (for NBA). [Wouldn't you rather have potential voters vote for you on the spot rather than have them forget about it later on?]I saw nothing wrong with NBA's tactics during the election. It was just really well thought out and great campaigning by their candidates and supporters.I'm sorry to say that One Baruch shows no class by filing a complaint even after the election.
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