{"id":6305,"date":"2023-05-17T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:52:39","slug":"copy-of-usg-announces-plan-to-recount-all-five-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/copy-of-usg-announces-plan-to-recount-all-five-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy of USG Announces Plan to Recount All Five Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHICAGO \u2014 Citing concerns over electoral integrity, USG announced plans Friday to recount all five votes cast in its recent elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recount is slated to take place by hand. Staffers on USG\u2019s Elections and Rules Committee have been working nonstop this past week, forming different piles for each campaign\u2019s votes, then painstakingly measuring the height of each pile. The staffers, who are all math majors, have reportedly faced issues during the recount determining how many votes are in each pile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The confusion in the announced vote totals seems to have stemmed from an electronic glitch in which one vote seemed to count for 1.5 votes. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure why this happened, but we\u2019re looking into every possibility, from illegal voting, to irregular vote counting, to a squirrel dancing on a keyboard, which is the current leading theory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USG apologized for the mistake and vowed to institute new policies to ensure the issue does not recur. \u201cWe\u2019d like to ban voting altogether,\u201d said newly elected USG president Otto Kratt. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not sure why this happened, but we\u2019re looking into every possibility, from illegal voting, to irregular vote counting, to a squirrel dancing on a keyboard, which is the current leading theory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":6306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}