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-5 posts tagged "election season"
Liam Price | Friday, February 3, 2023
The Notre Dame student senate met Wednesday night in a classroom located on the first floor of the Mendoza College of Business. In the meeting, the senate voted to pass a resolution clarifying rules about elections for vacant positions in student governments, denying candidates the opportunity to run if they had resigned or been removed
Pablo Lacayo | Wednesday, February 1, 2023
As we settle into 2023, American politics has really simmered down to a near standstill. The country just emerged from the most enigmatic midterm cycle in recent history, with voters rebuking President Biden’s administration just enough to flip the balance of the House of Representatives while simultaneously giving the White House symbolic victories like a
Siobhan Loughney | Thursday, March 10, 2022
Election season is well underway here in the tri-campus, and next week the students of Saint Mary’s College will elect their next Student Government Association (SGA) president and vice president. Building a platform, campaigning and serving the student body takes a lot of time, energy and dedication. To better understand the process, The Observer spoke
Trevor Lwere | Monday, August 31, 2020
In many developing democracies world-over, the institutionalization of democratic principles and practices remains a challenge. In particular, organizing free, fair and credible elections remains an uphill task for governments in young democracies. This is true especially amongst countries in the Americas where elections are riddled with spurts of violence, allegations of fraud and rigging as
Kelli Smith and Mary Steurer | Monday, November 19, 2018
Editor’s note: Throughout the 2018 midterm election season, The Observer sat down with various student organizations and professors to discuss political engagement and issues particularly pertinent to students. In this eighth installment, students and political organizations discuss next steps and reactions to midterm elections. It was a night of record-high voter turnout, delayed local results,