AUBURN, Ala (EETV)- With a new semester comes another student government election, but this year the Auburn University Student Government Association voted to change the rules pertaining to campaigning. The changes in rules affect how students can campaign on the concourse and with how the students can act on voting day.
During last year’s election, several student saw problems during campaigning that caused the SGA to call to vote a new way that the students could campaign on the concourse. This caused a new law to be created that states only 10 students can actively campaign on the concourse for that particular candidate.
Not only does the new law create a limit on how many people are allowed to be campaigning, but it also limits the time that students can campaign. The new law states that they may only actively campaign through the hours of 5 A.M. and 5 P.M.
The other change that SGA has implemented deals with the actual voting day. The new SGA law states that campaigners are not allowed to use any form of technology to directly garner votes for their candidate and that they may not campaign off campus.
With these new laws in place SGA hopes to have a better and more organized voting season. These new laws will help the problems that students have seen over the last election and help ease the qualm that students might’ve felt about this new election.
