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Chair: Jered Wierzbicki
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Meeting Time: Thursday 7:00 PM
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Mechmania Robots Dominate Student Election
By Chris Mullen

     In an unforseen and unexplainable upset, robots Cannon, Flack, Mortar, and Pistol, all members of the Mechmania "Quad Laser" contingent, swept every executive position in the Illinois Student Senate Tuesday night.  The robots, who ran as write-in candidates, received an overwhelming majority despite not appearing on the ballot.  Hours after election results were released, the Student Election Commission was still scrambling for an explanation.  "These results are most confusing," commented the SEC Chair.  While there has been no official report from the SEC on the mysterious results, many students are speculating.  Some feel the outcome is the result of an insecure electronic voting system.  "One of those computer programmers hacked the results," boasted one student.  Others are pointing to the incompatibility of the voting system's revolutionary butterfly ballot, designed for Internet Explorer.  "The ballot did not display correctly on other browsers," claimed one student, "you couldn't tell who you were voting for."  But still more are confident of the results.  One student stated simply, "I voted for the

Chair: Navreet Gill
Email: siggraph@uiuc.edu
Meeting Time: Friday 6:00 PM
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quad laser.  I hope they will blast some sense into student government."  Several students are still very upset, and have banded together in an attempt to disqualify the robot crew.  "We will be filing an appeal with the SEC," a member of the insurgency reported.  "Those robots did not include a mailing address on their candidacy papers."

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