Two ASI election complaints filed

Two election complaints were filed with the Student Affairs office the morning after ASI elections.

One, submitted by Joann I. Sprogis, takes issue with the post-voting raffle using ballot stubs that ASI has sponsored the last two years. Sprogis contends that ASI is misusing the student’s funds to sponsor these raffles. “Bribing people with their own money to participate in an election that does not interest them will not result in intelligent voting and is a frivolous and dishonest use of money,” reads Sprogis’ complaint.

The second complaint was filed by five students, most of which were running for a position on the ASI board.

Greg Darusmont, who lost his campaign for director of arts and letters, Dan Freschi, who ran for vice president of finance, Charles Albright, who also ran for arts and letters, Heather Tejada, who is currently the director of natural science and mathematics and Effie Miller, who ran for ASI president, filed a complaint charging that ASI president Gary Davis misused his power in office to endorse the Weíll Do It 2000 slate, which went on to sweep every position on the board Wednesday.

The complaint charges that a letter from Davis printed in the State Hornet endorsed the We’ll Do It 2000 slate and constituted an “abuse of power, which is a violation of ASI operating rules.”

Both complaints have been forwarded to the Election Complaint Committee, which has ten academic days to review the charges.

Two previous complaints had been filed on April 7 by Jeremy Brickner, currently the director of undeclared students and now the new postbaccalaureate director, alleging that two candidates failed to file interim spending reports on time. The other complaint, by Greg Darusmont, charged that Lane Kasselman, the new director of arts and letters, was not qualified to run in that school because he was a government/journalism major.

Both complaints were heard by the ECC last Tuesday and a decision is expected by today.