Next academic year’s Student Government Association executive board will have to pay the $400 maximum fine for campaigning during voting despite appealing the decision.
A Student Rights and Community Standards hearing Monday night upheld Cardinal Connection’s campaign violation with a unanimous vote.
The slate — Nick Wilkey, Carli Hendershot, Rahissa Engle and Sidney Staples — appealed the fine after the Student Government Association election, which it won. Cardinal Connection will still take office in April.
Jennifer Jones-Hall, adviser for SGA, said the violation in question concerned emails that Wilkey sent out using Ball State list servers on the first day of voting, Feb. 24. The elections board met Feb. 25 to vote on the issue and fine, which delayed the election announcement by two hours.
The current code dictates that slates must remove all material and cannot use university computing services 24 hours before voting begins.
Wilkey said after he was elected that he was not aware the emails were against the elections code.
Traditionally, the SGA judiciary committee handles post-election appeals, but Jones-Hall said she sent the issue to Student Rights and Community Standards because all of the members of the judiciary committee were involved with one of the two slates in the election.
Wilkey said the Student Rights and Community Standards board was made up of “respectable, unbiased” students, and that he held no grudges.
“They decided my interpretation of the elections code was a little off when I sent out the emails,” he said. “I feel like this will set precedence for [campaigning] next year.”
Wilkey said he is excited to move forward with Cardinal Connection as the executive slate for the next academic year.
“It’s unfortunate we have to pay this money,” he said. “But it goes back to the students, anyways.”
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