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Senate election appeal update
Casey Creel
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The Senate Election Appeals
Committee has ordered the Starr
and Urooj tickets to meet this
week through the Conflict Reso
lution Center to discuss the
Starr ticket's appeal of the Sen
ate election.
"Several students, including
the Starr ticket, have raised con
cerns and questions about cam
paign tactics in the recent Sen
ate election," said Mona Olds,
committee chair and dean of stu
dent, life. • l; .
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candidate for Senate president,
made the appeal three days af
ter the Feb. 19 election.
"What I firmly want is seri
ous reform to make the rules
clearer and specify definite con
sequences to behavioral infrac
tions so this doesn't happen in
the future," Starr said.
Tamara Asad, vice presi
dent-elect on the Urooj ticket,
said that her ticket does not
know the appeal's exact allega
tions yet.
"We still feel that we did not
harass anybody, and we did not
violate any rules together," Asad
*■ said. 1 "My hafte fe that we solve
this whether it's a miscommu
nication or a misunderstanding,
because this is not a personal
issue with the Starr ticket."
James Tatum and David
Kaplan, who manned the elec
tion in Founders lobby from 7:30
a.m. to 11:00 a.m., also raised
concerns to the committee and
the two tickets through a letter
sent five days after the election.
"I read last week's
Guilfordian and saw that it
wasn't just the two of us with
concerns," Kaplan said. "We both
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