During their meeting on April 9, the Student Government Association increased the amount of signatures it takes for someone to contest an election.
In order for someone to run for an executive SGA position, they must gather signatures from three percent of the student body. The signatures are turned in to the SGA chief justice before students are given a chance to vote.
Under current guidelines, if someone wishes to contest the initial signatures, they need to explain themselves to the SGA judicial committee. If the judicial committee deems the contestation appropriate, they would need to gather five student signatures.
In the end, the bill was changed so anyone contesting election signatures must get 50 signatures from students supporting them.
The bill was developed after recent signatures during this year’s SGA campaign were contested.
Signatures gathered by SGA president James Bonsall, business junior, and his running mate, former SGA treasurer Kevin Evans, elementary education freshman, were contested because many of the signatures were
illegible.