I was even more angry that I only learned off the amendments last Thursday through Dr. Aylman’s email. Where was the debate on the amendments? My fellow USG Evening Senator, Colin Rosenbaum, and I (we both were elected to vacant seats four wks ago) joined together to write a ltr about the referendum to the Ticker. Hopefully it will be printed, so we can at least address the injustice here.
Jorge

Dear Mr. Aylman,

With 3 voting booths, Baruch has not provided enough resources for a reasonable turnout for the USG election and referendums.

If the same number of students that voted in last year’s USG election wanted to vote this year, that would give each student – if they all waited in line perfectly all day for the full 8 hours – 2 minutes and 18 seconds to cast 47 votes. So far voting is reportedly down 15% on the first day, and I witnessed a long line every time I passed the voting area today.

This is simply not acceptable. Presumably from all the reports, enrollment is up at Baruch this year. Baruch administration has a responsibility to provide resources sufficient for students to vote without being rushed at some point convenient for them during the school week.

When a student sees that the school has allotted three voting booths for 16,000 students, there is an automatic perception by any sensible person that there are insufficient resources for the student to vote in an expeditious manner, regardless of the reality of the situation. They will be automatically predisposed to abstain from voting.

This creates a de facto denial of the access to vote, and the right to vote is one bestowed on every Baruch student. It should go without saying that you have never had any intention of possibly allowing anywhere near the full student body the ability to vote in this election, but Baruch has to to better.

The least that Baruch can do is double the voting period through next week.

Please address this at once.

Robert Reale