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Police escort former candidate from USG
Following demands to see voter records, failed candidate leaves with cops
John Kennedy
Issue date: 4/30/09 Section: News
Newly-elected USG President Tom Haggerty paused, then laughed, when he called the transition between this year's USG executive staff and next year's a "peaceful" one, knowing it had been anything but.
Shortly after Speaker Corey Schmitt called last night's USG meeting to order at 9:22 p.m., 4th-semester finance and actuarial science major Lucien Stroie, clipboard in hand, strode to the microphone and made his case. It resulted in Stroie's eventual removal by five UConn police officers.
Stroie, who recently lost the election for comptroller to Matt Burrill by 980 votes, held the floor for nearly an hour, demanding that USG release the voter rolls to confirm that there was no error in the election system.
Taylor McGloin, the president of the Student Government Assurance Team, spoke alongside Stroie during the hour-long ordeal. He said Stroie had not been arrested, a fact that the UConn Police Department later confirmed.
Though he left of his own volition at Wednesday's meeting, McGloin had previously been escorted by police from a March 18 USG meeting after refusing to follow the group's rules of debate conduct.
Currently, lists of which students voted for which candidates are not considered public information, but former comptroller Jason Ortiz said USG should figure out a way that elections can be verified, since "a process without verification is not a [legitimate] process."
"We have to know our elections are [legitimate]," Ortiz said, speaking on behalf of Stroie.
McGloin, whose group is applying for authority equal to that of USG from the Board of Trustees in the fall, said they merely wanted a list of each vote cast without the personal voter information.
Stroie used persistent, often confrontational tactics to further his argument. He noted that while the contract USG signed with the entity that counts the votes does not say the public is entitled to a voter roll, it does not say that they are not.
Shortly after Speaker Corey Schmitt called last night's USG meeting to order at 9:22 p.m., 4th-semester finance and actuarial science major Lucien Stroie, clipboard in hand, strode to the microphone and made his case. It resulted in Stroie's eventual removal by five UConn police officers.
Stroie, who recently lost the election for comptroller to Matt Burrill by 980 votes, held the floor for nearly an hour, demanding that USG release the voter rolls to confirm that there was no error in the election system.
Taylor McGloin, the president of the Student Government Assurance Team, spoke alongside Stroie during the hour-long ordeal. He said Stroie had not been arrested, a fact that the UConn Police Department later confirmed.
Though he left of his own volition at Wednesday's meeting, McGloin had previously been escorted by police from a March 18 USG meeting after refusing to follow the group's rules of debate conduct.
Currently, lists of which students voted for which candidates are not considered public information, but former comptroller Jason Ortiz said USG should figure out a way that elections can be verified, since "a process without verification is not a [legitimate] process."
"We have to know our elections are [legitimate]," Ortiz said, speaking on behalf of Stroie.
McGloin, whose group is applying for authority equal to that of USG from the Board of Trustees in the fall, said they merely wanted a list of each vote cast without the personal voter information.
Stroie used persistent, often confrontational tactics to further his argument. He noted that while the contract USG signed with the entity that counts the votes does not say the public is entitled to a voter roll, it does not say that they are not.
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Class of 06
posted 4/30/09 @ 9:45 AM EST
Proving once again that USG is a pack of political science dweebs with nothing better to do with their time.
The Sheriff
posted 4/30/09 @ 1:42 PM EST
That statement is ridiculous. USG has recruited plenty of dweebs with nothing better do with their time from all sorts of majors across the various schools and colleges of Connecticut's Flagship University. (Continued…)
Guy from Brock
posted 4/30/09 @ 1:47 PM EST
Give it up man, you lost. By almost 1000 votes. Matt Burrill did a lot of advertising and things conducive to winning an election.
Frank Purozanella
posted 4/30/09 @ 4:38 PM EST
As a former senator I laugh at all you DWEEBS who couldn't get elected, now I think you are just jealous you didn't get an invite to the sweet parties. (Continued…)
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