GPSA election results appealed
Rivkela Brodsky | April 19by Rivkela Brodsky Daily Lobo The results for the GPSA presidential election are still not official. Members of the Student Bar Association filed an appeal on April 6, a day before the election ended. Buckner Creel was unofficially re-elected GPSA president by 408 votes on April 7. According to the rules of GPSA, an election cannot be certified until any challenges to the election are resolved. The appeal stated not all graduate students received notice of the election, because only students with CIRT net IDs are included on GPSA's e-mail list. Other than advertising in the Daily Lobo, all official elections appointments were sent out on the GPSA e-mail list. But they were not disbursed to GPSA members who were not on the list, according to the appeal. The appeal also states access to voting was not equal because only students with CIRT net IDs were allowed to vote online. Michael Neill, president of the Student Bar Association, said the group protested the election because two-thirds of graduate students were excluded from notices and online voting.
