Last Monday, seven other students and I submitted a Petition for Consideration to the USAC Judicial Board. The petition asks the board to disqualify the Social Justice Referendum and set a date for a recall election for all contested candidates in the other week’s undergraduate elections. The goal we seek to achieve is much more […]
Tag Archives: usac-election-2016
Voter turnout improves despite lowered USAC Election Board budget
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 […]
USAC election 2016 highlights
Daily Bruin Video captures reactions to the results of the 2016 USAC elections in one of UCLA’s highest years of voter turnout.
USAC Election Results 2016
About 40 percent of undergraduate students voted in the 2016 USAC election, the highest voter turnout since 2009. This year, 11,281 of 28,019 eligible students cast ballots for at least one candidate or referendum. Daily Bruin Photography was there to cover the event.
Editorial: USAC Election Board must disqualify Social Justice Referendum
Editor’s note: The referenda on the USAC ballot did 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 benefitted the Daily Bruin financially. The USAC Election Board must retroactively disqualify the Social Justice Referendum for incurring […]
Students approve all four referenda on USAC election ballot
Students voted to pass all four referenda on the undergraduate student government election ballot Friday. More than half of students who voted in the election supported The Green Initiative Fund referendum, the Social Justice Referendum of 2016, the #UCLAwellness Referendum and the Daily Bruin and Bruinwalk.com Referendum. The 2016 election had a voter turnout of […]
No Offense, But: USAC Results
Live from the Daily Bruin conference room, Chris Campbell, Abhishek Shetty and Aaron Julian offer their reactions in the aftermath of Friday night’s USAC election. There was a lot happening, and lots to opine about. The Opinion columnists discuss voter turnout, the composition of next year’s council, political developments in this year’s election cycle and […]