Slate candidates sanctioned for violating Election Code

Two slates of candidates running in the undergraduate student election will not be able to campaign online until Wednesday, after the Election Board sanctioned them for violating the Election Code. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board cited LET’S ACT! and Bruins United candidates for posting promotional photos on Facebook before online campaigning was permitted. […]

USAC Election Podcast Episode 1: A Year in Review

Join Radio Director Chris Campbell in a series of USAC podcasts designed as a beginner’s guide to student government happenings. This week, Chris Campbell sits down with Daily Bruin Opinion staffers Natalie Delgadillo and Aram Ghoogasian to discuss some controversial issues USAC has faced over the past year.

USAC Election Board requests funds to give voter incentives in spring

The undergraduate student government Election Board is requesting up to $4,000 from the student government and the UCLA Student Union to fund voter incentives in the upcoming spring election. The funding would be part of a plan to combat low voter turnout in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election. The Election Board’s discretionary funding proposal […]

USAC to vote on adding fee increase referendum to election ballot

The undergraduate student government will vote Tuesday on whether to add a referendum to the spring election ballot that would raise quarterly student fees by $3 to increase funding for student group activities. If students vote to pass the measure, the funds would be allocated to the Undergraduate Students Association Council Contingency Programming Fund, the […]

USAC unanimously approves mandatory campaign spending limits

The undergraduate student government unanimously approved mandatory spending caps of $850 for candidates running for executive offices and $750 for candidates running for any other office Tuesday. The move marks the first time since 2003 that candidates running for the Undergraduate Students Association Council will be held to mandatory spending limits in their campaigns. Election […]

Editorial: Long-overdue changes to USAC Election Code help ensure transparency

On Tuesday night, the Undergraduate Students Association Council finally voted to amend its flawed and often vague Election Code. On the whole, the changes council made will go far in ensuring fair and transparent elections in spring, although there was one kink in the code left unaddressed by the most recent update. First, the council […]

USAC approves five-day election calendar

This article has been updated at 5:46 p.m. See the bottom of the article for more details. Spring’s undergraduate student government elections will span from Monday to Friday for the first time in the past eight years, after councilmembers approved an election calendar with several nontraditional dates Tuesday night. Undergraduate Students Association Council elections typically […]