So most of the day members of the OUSU Elections committee were seen parading leisurely around Oxford ripping illegal posters down and fining students (I always thought that OUSU was meant to help students. Hmm.)
But why weren't they trying to fix the voter code problem? Where on earth does OUSU's RO priorities like? OUSU Gossip has always been a fan of OUSU but this has just been a joke and a disgrace.
Given RO Maddy's letter of the law approach, the constitution clearly dictates that the election must take place over 72 hours. It has not. It seems it will not. People are still reporting they have not received codes. Surely there is no other result than the election to be declared null and void? Surely Baskerville, Maher and Tryl will appeal at the end of the election otherwise?
How on earth was this "cool, new, modern OUSU, let's turn people out online" system not tested? Heads must roll...
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Well said. The obvious problem for Miss Stanley is that if the deadline is extended to take into account the 24 hours which never were, then there will be people (grads, by my reckoning) who will have had an extra 24 hours with their activation codes available for voting.
Miss Stanley needs to bite the bullet and re-run the election next week. Again.
name and shame!
I agree except that another week of being hacked is a frightening idea! Why didn't they test how long it would take? surely they could have sent them out on Sunday and just not made the codes valid until Tuesday.
No-con, anyone?
You can't no-con her. Shes not ameanable to council in the same way that exec officers are. If you want her replaced you have to go to the proctors.
Its really not primarily Madeline's fault. I'd blame Rich Hardiman if I was you. For both the voter code and the JMB fuck ups.
One way or another, she has to go. Hopefully she'll resign and save us the trouble
Yeah, it's pretty much my fault... I just hate democracy.
Its not like student democracy actually decides anything of any real importance. The Stefan/Maher thing is just a long bitching fight about who has more competence, and, in our wisdom, we decide this by the age-old tradition of getting the two candidates to find all of their friends and get them to say nasty things about the other candidate whilst getting their name out as much as possible. Both candidates make the same stupid promises that have been made in every OUSU race for the last five years, and neither manifesto gives you the slightest chance of figuring out what the guy is going to be like. This isn't real politics and no-one should fool themselves that their choice today will make the blindest bit of difference. Except the person who wins, who will have the joy of a poorly paid administrative job that does a lot less for your CV than you might think.
"The Stefan/Maher thing is just a long bitching fight about who has more competence, and, in our wisdom, we decide this by the age-old tradition of getting the two candidates to find all of their friends and get them to say nasty things about the other candidate whilst getting their name out as much as possible. Both candidates make the same stupid promises that have been made in every OUSU race for the last five years, and neither manifesto gives you the slightest chance of figuring out what the guy is going to be like. This isn't real politics"
How the hell is that different from real politics?
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