The ASUO Constitution Court today delayed the results of this week’s primary elections indefinitely, placing an injunction against the ASUO Election Board in response to a grievance alleging the board acted improperly during the election.
The board must also rule on grievances alleging other campaign rules violations before the results can be announced. The results were scheduled to be released after 5 p.m. today following three days of online voting through DuckWeb.
The ruling states the court “determines a hearings officer is necessary to gather information from the parties in the petition,” adding that “participation by the Elections Board in the ASUO elections during consideration by the hearings officer may compromise material components of the petition.”
ASUO Student Senator Kevin Day filed the grievance with the court asking it to place injunctions against the board, alleging the board has not been “impartial throughout the electoral process” because it showed bias toward the campaign of ASUO Executive candidates Ashley Rees and Jael Anker-Lagos.
“Lastly, other campaigns have expressed that the Elections Boards has showed a bias to the Rees/Anker-Lagos campaign,” Day wrote. “The ConCourt should act swiftly in this manner because the results are supposed to be released this evening.”
The board already ruled Friday in response to a different grievance that the Rees-Anker-Lagos campaign is forbidden from campaigning until after the primary election and cannot campaign in the residence halls until Monday.
In other election news, Senator Barett Volkmann filed a grievance asking to be automatically moved into next week’s general election because his name was misspelled on online DuckWeb ballots.
“Due to the potential for lost votes from lack of name recognition and/or thinking the listing was for another candidate, I should automatically move onto the general election, unless I win in the primaries,” he wrote.
Student Yuka Murai also field a grievance Friday, alleging executive candidates Nick Hudson and Allison Sprouse violated an election rule by displaying two posters on one bulletin board in a campus building.

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