This afternoon, I received a copy of the tally sheets from election night. I was trying to put together numbers to see who had won which residence halls and colleges in preparation for Wednesday's election coverage. While going through the on-campus numbers, I noticed a huge lead for Walrath-Goldsmith. They had won every constituency. When I started to enter off-campus numbers, I noticed something odd.
For some reason, the order of the candidates on the spreadsheet had changed. This was the first time they had been listed in a different order out of all of the 70+ ballots. The official results have listed that Walrath-Goldsmith had gotten 87 off-campus votes, Greenway-Beaves had 605, and Reed-Simonson 166. I was shocked by the numbers.
I went to the NISG office to look at the official ballots. It appears the order of candidates on the tally sheet had been incorrectly changed. They no longer represented the actual ballot results. A quick tally of election results show Walrath-Goldsmith taking over 75% of the vote.
Later this evening, I will present this evidence to the Election Commission for a ruling. We'll keep you posted on their decision.
The NISGElections.com coverage team will be live on http://livestream.com/NISGElections at 8:30 to discuss this breaking news.
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