...or so a local city council candidate claims.
The story goes something like this: I go to Northwestern University, and I voted for Cheryl Wollin in the April election for Ward 1 alderman. Wollin ran on a platform of improving relations between the town and the University, while her opponent, Judy Fiske, has a record that shows her to be actively opposed to students and student safety (for example, she's stalled the addition of new street lights in poorly-lit areas around campus).
Wollin won the election by 89 votes, but now Fiske has filed a suit requesting that the votes of between 230 and 240 Northwestern students be discounted. 209 of those, mine included, are being challenged based on a claim that the voters were essentially paid by the University to vote. The section that refers to me specifically reads as follows:
"8.2.82. One <MY NAME HERE>, ballot application # 85, a Northwestern University student who is registered to vote from 1865 Sherman Avenue, a Northwestern University residence hall, whose voter registration and attendance at the polls was illegally purchased by the offer and provision of valuable consideration by RESPONDENT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, through its employees and agents, was illegally permitted to cast his/her purchased vote."
According to Fiske's story, Northwestern's residential colleges (different from normal residence halls in that they allow all residents who accumulate enough housing points to live in for a second year, and give room preference to the residents with the most points) bought the votes of these 209 students by offering them housing points to vote for Wollin. I can verify that no such offer was made to me, and there is a record of all housing points given out to people in my residential college that backs that up. The charges are completely false, and the idea that students would even need to be bribed to vote for someone other than Fiske is absurd.
No students are being sued directly at the moment, but it's possible that if Fiske wins her lawsuit it could open up the possibility of vote fraud complaints against all of us. All because this woman is bitter that she can't continue to screw over Northwestern students in any official capacity.
The story goes something like this: I go to Northwestern University, and I voted for Cheryl Wollin in the April election for Ward 1 alderman. Wollin ran on a platform of improving relations between the town and the University, while her opponent, Judy Fiske, has a record that shows her to be actively opposed to students and student safety (for example, she's stalled the addition of new street lights in poorly-lit areas around campus).
Wollin won the election by 89 votes, but now Fiske has filed a suit requesting that the votes of between 230 and 240 Northwestern students be discounted. 209 of those, mine included, are being challenged based on a claim that the voters were essentially paid by the University to vote. The section that refers to me specifically reads as follows:
"8.2.82. One <MY NAME HERE>, ballot application # 85, a Northwestern University student who is registered to vote from 1865 Sherman Avenue, a Northwestern University residence hall, whose voter registration and attendance at the polls was illegally purchased by the offer and provision of valuable consideration by RESPONDENT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, through its employees and agents, was illegally permitted to cast his/her purchased vote."
According to Fiske's story, Northwestern's residential colleges (different from normal residence halls in that they allow all residents who accumulate enough housing points to live in for a second year, and give room preference to the residents with the most points) bought the votes of these 209 students by offering them housing points to vote for Wollin. I can verify that no such offer was made to me, and there is a record of all housing points given out to people in my residential college that backs that up. The charges are completely false, and the idea that students would even need to be bribed to vote for someone other than Fiske is absurd.
No students are being sued directly at the moment, but it's possible that if Fiske wins her lawsuit it could open up the possibility of vote fraud complaints against all of us. All because this woman is bitter that she can't continue to screw over Northwestern students in any official capacity.
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