The Cadre + 7 April1998 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Matt Gray’s Victory: 
     
     A Raining on His 
     
     Parade 
     
    
   
   
    
     BY TODD MACLEAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     On Friday, April 3, Matt 
     
     Gray won the race for next 
     
     year’s Student Council Presi- 
     
     dent with a deciding victory of 
     
    

    
     179 out of 248 votes in the 
     
     election that featured a mere 
     
     11.67 percent voter turnout 
     
     from the student population. 
     
    

    
     “I am happy for the vote 
     
     of confidence,” commented 
     
     Gray. “I would have liked to 
     
     have seen more people come 
     
     out [to vote], but I’m quite 
     
     comfortable with the clear 
     
     majority.” 
     
    

    
     The percentage of stu- 
     
     dent voters was relatively the 
     
     same as in recent years ac- 
     
     cording to Lisa Muzumdar, 
     
     Chief Returning Officer of the 
     
     election. 
     
    

    
     “If there were more 
     
     races then the voter turnout 
     
     would have been higher,” she 
     
     said. “In such cases people 
     
     are more apt to come out and 
     
     support someone.” 
     
    

    
     There was only one ac- 
     
     tual race for positions in the 
     
     Student Union elections this 
     
     year -- that between Gray and 
     
     Melissa Doucette for the presi- 
     
     dency. But a high number of 
     
     voters is not entirely neces- 
     
     sary in university election proc- 
     
     esses anyway, said Muzumdar, 
     
     as a certain percentage is not 
     
     even required to decide a vic- 
     
     tory. 
     
    

    
     “If we have 2 votes, 
     
     then a decision can still be 
     
     made,” she said. 
     
    

    
     Aside from voters lack- 
     
     ing in the election process, 
     
     though, it follows that there 
     
     was a deficiency in proper 
     
     campaign direction this year 
     
     as well, as Matt Gray is pres- 
     
     ently being fined for not re- 
     
     moving his campaign materi- 
     
    

    
     als before the said time. 
     
    

    
     “Matt incurred the maxi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     mum amount of fines for not 
     
     removing his materials,” said 
     
     Muzumdar. “The fines are $10 
     
     per poster, to a maximum 
     
     amount of a $50 fine.” 
     
    

    
     According to 
     
     Muzumdar, Gray had been 
     
     misinformed by the Student 
     
     Union as to what time the 
     
     materials were to be removed 
     
     by. 
     
    

    
     “He went to the Student 
     
     Union, asked when they were 
     
     supposed to be taken down, 
     
     and they said by midnight on 
     
     Friday. It was really supposed 
     
     to be 8:00pm on Friday.” 
     
    

    
     Muzumdar said that she 
     
     tried to inform the candidates 
     
     as much as possible about the 
     
     regulations regarding such con- 
     
     cerns, and that there was both 
     
     a meeting held to discuss these 
     
     issues, and a reminder E-mail 
     
     sent out before the deadline as 
     
     well. 
     
    

    
     “He would have been 
     
     made aware of the time at the 
     
     meeting,” she said. “I can’t 
     
     babysit them all.” 
     
    

    
     However, according to 
     
     Gray, he had received the E- 
     
     mail notification at 6:58pm on 
     
     Friday, thus leaving him witha 
     
     total of one hour and two min- 
     
     utes to remove his materials 
     
     before the actual deadline. 
     
    

    
     When asked about the 
     
     alleged resulting fine, Gray said 
     
     that he had been provided with 
     
     no information up to that point 
     
     regarding these charges. He 
     
     was surprised, and thus re- 
     
     fused to comment, pending ap- 
     
    
   
   
    
     He did wish to bid a 
     
     final thank you, however, to all 
     
     those who took the time to 
     
     vote, and who voted for him, 
     
     and “a special thanks to those 
     
     who nominated me.” 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
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