I got a mass text message from someone working for one of the ASUO election campaigns. It said:
“We’re 100 votes behind! Can you get 5 votes for Amelie & Maneesh & Campus Change Coalition before voting ends on DuckWeb at 5pm?”
Which is a weensy bit fishy because, of course, none of the candidates are supposed to know the vote count until it’s revealed publicly at 5:30-ish today. In fact, for candidates to know is supposed to be impossible. Case in point: after I got the message, I called the University techie who’s running the computer.
“There’s no way for them to get that information,” he said. The only person with access to it: him, and he said, as of when the text message went out “I have actually not checked it recently.”
So then I responded to the text, asking the volunteer where the knowledge came from. The response: “Oh i know these things tomchak” …
I guess we’ll see when the results come out.
The elections results have NOT been released to anyone. We don’t even know how many students have voted at this point yet. These statements are not backed by any evidence.
But please keep voting on http://duckweb.uoregon.edu
It was just an estimate based on our internal vote count and the total number of votes released by the elections board, and a way to spur volunteers to action.