STANDING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
AGENDA
6:30 PM, SG Office, 307A Witherspoon Student Center
Reports
Report of the Subcommittee on Ethics
Legislative
SR 36, Hill Impeachment
GB 47, Senate Efficiency Act
SR 23, SMA Referendum Order
Other Referred Business
Update on research pertaining to the re-drafting of GB 33 as so to be in order.
Investigative Business
Discussion of solutions to problems in elections regulations identified last meeting. GB 27 and R 19 will be included in context of elections reform.
Future Meetings
Decide if to have an October 31, 2001 (Halloween) meeting, or if to meet at some other time that week.
Elections Statutes Problems
identified by and to the Committee on Government Operations
Elections Board
- structure of board
- service on board and other offices
- term of board
- unix personel/voting server
- publicity efforts
- Wolf Aides and publicity (E) (R 19)
- Candidate unity/publicity (E)
Ballots & candidacy
- Write-in process
- Who is candidate (E)
- seniors able to run
- candidacy-classification relation (E)
- ballot order
- written ballots (E)
- library and polling (E)
- qualifications of candidates
- rights of candidates
- all candidates meeting
- certification
Money
- expense report submission (E)
- Croom-Palin Finance Reform Act
- spending limits
Violations
- reasonable punishments
- appeal timeline (appeals during, not after)
- violations - who report and how
- campaigning in facilities
Other Ballot uses
- calling of elections
- regulations on other elections
- referenda procedures (GB 27)
Statutory (the words)
- long sections
- over-regulating definitions
- structure of statutes (articles vs. subsections
(E) indicates reference to the official notice of observed problems by the elections board.