This year’s undergraduate student government’s election had a 40.3 percent voter turnout, one of the highest in years, despite cuts in the election board’s budget. The board’s budget decreased from $37,000 in 2015 to $26,000 in 2016, to accommodate decreasing USAC funds. USAC Election Board Chair Lindsay Allen said the board moved campaign efforts from […]
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Bruins United sails past Waves of Change in 2016 USAC election
This post was updated May 6 at 8 p.m. Bruins United secured nine of 14 seats on the next undergraduate student government council, and students voted to pass all four referenda on the ballot. About 40 percent of undergraduate students voted in the 2016 USAC election, the highest voter turnout since 2009. This year, 11,281 […]
Daily Bruin polls UCLA community on USAC election
Editor’s note: The results mentioned in this post are not the official results of the undergraduate student government election. Responses were gathered anonymously through a survey available to all students on dailybruin.com. In a Daily Bruin poll, all three Waves of Change candidates received majority votes for their respective contested positions. The poll, which includes […]
Social Justice Referendum sanctioned after USAC Judicial Board ruling
The undergraduate student government election board sanctioned the Social Justice Referendum for violating its campaign spending limit after the judicial board ruled in favor of the election board’s past sanctions Thursday morning. As a result, the Social Justice Referendum needed to remove all campaigning material, such as signboards, by 3 p.m. Thursday. All campaigning materials […]
Judicial board rules in favor of election board on referendum petition
The undergraduate student government judicial board ruled Thursday morning in favor of the election board on four of five claims representatives of the Social Justice Referendum registered against it. Two Undergraduate Students Association Council officials and Social Justice Referendum campaign representative Jazz Kiang filed a USAC Judicial Board petition Tuesday after the USAC Election Board sanctioned […]
USAC Judicial Board to review Social Justice Referendum petition
Editor’s note: The referenda on the Undergraduate Students Association Council ballot do not directly compete with one another, but in the interest of full transparency, we believe it is worth noting one of the referenda on this year’s ballot directly benefits the Daily Bruin financially. The Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum would support the UCLA […]
USAC Election Board releases campaign spending totals
The post was updated at 10:06 p.m. Tuesday to reflect the most recent expenditure report released by the Election Board Tuesday afternoon. Candidates and referenda in this year’s undergraduate student government election spent a total of $19,000 on campaigns, about $7,000 more than last year. Campaign funding documents released by the USAC Election Board on […]