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Students raise concerns over fairness of SFSS elections voting system
Peak Web March 24, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer and Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief From February 27 to 28, SFU undergraduate students voted in the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) election. On the ballot were SFSS executive position candidates and fee increase motions. The results were finalized on March 5. However, students have questioned the election procedure’s integrity, particularly on the subreddit r/simonfraser. During the campaign period, one Reddit user claimed they could vote multiple times using the same SFU computing ID in different browsers. “I do not trust the SFSS-run [Independent Electoral Commission] (IEC) to remove duplicate votes. I do not understand why they…
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IEC Elections and Referenda Report offers improvements for SFSS elections
Peak Web May 5, 2018The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) Board of Directors meeting held on April 20 saw the Board reviewing the Elections and Referenda Report submitted by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) reviewing the practices of the 2018 SFSS elections. …
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