The Cadre + 7 April1998

Matt Gray’s Victory: A Raining on His Parade

BY TODD MACLEAN

On Friday, April 3, Matt Gray won the race for next year’s Student Council Presi- dent with a deciding victory of

179 out of 248 votes in the election that featured a mere 11.67 percent voter turnout from the student population.

“I am happy for the vote of confidence,” commented Gray. “I would have liked to have seen more people come out [to vote], but I’m quite comfortable with the clear majority.”

The percentage of stu- dent voters was relatively the same as in recent years ac- cording to Lisa Muzumdar, Chief Returning Officer of the election.

“If there were more races then the voter turnout would have been higher,” she said. “In such cases people are more apt to come out and support someone.”

There was only one ac- tual race for positions in the Student Union elections this year -- that between Gray and Melissa Doucette for the presi- dency. But a high number of voters is not entirely neces- sary in university election proc- esses anyway, said Muzumdar, as a certain percentage is not even required to decide a vic- tory.

“If we have 2 votes, then a decision can still be made,” she said.

Aside from voters lack- ing in the election process, though, it follows that there was a deficiency in proper campaign direction this year as well, as Matt Gray is pres- ently being fined for not re- moving his campaign materi-

als before the said time.

“Matt incurred the maxi-

mum amount of fines for not removing his materials,” said Muzumdar. “The fines are $10 per poster, to a maximum amount of a $50 fine.”

According to Muzumdar, Gray had been misinformed by the Student Union as to what time the materials were to be removed by.

“He went to the Student Union, asked when they were supposed to be taken down, and they said by midnight on Friday. It was really supposed to be 8:00pm on Friday.”

Muzumdar said that she tried to inform the candidates as much as possible about the regulations regarding such con- cerns, and that there was both a meeting held to discuss these issues, and a reminder E-mail sent out before the deadline as well.

“He would have been made aware of the time at the meeting,” she said. “I can’t babysit them all.”

However, according to Gray, he had received the E- mail notification at 6:58pm on Friday, thus leaving him witha total of one hour and two min- utes to remove his materials before the actual deadline.

When asked about the alleged resulting fine, Gray said that he had been provided with no information up to that point regarding these charges. He was surprised, and thus re- fused to comment, pending ap-

He did wish to bid a final thank you, however, to all those who took the time to vote, and who voted for him, and “a special thanks to those who nominated me.”

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