8th October 2011, 03:37 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:My student union had a default 're-open nominations' if none of the candidates for the post got more than a certain percentage of the available votes - although on that basis I suppose there wouldn't be any council members at IFA....
To be honest, I'm quite surprised that anyone was ever elected to your student union on the basis of that rule, either! Given the 4% response to the IFA election, god only knows how many times you'd have to re-run the process to get an acceptably high percentage (particularly given that those who have voted would probably get fed up of being continually asked to vote again and again, until enough people decided to join in). Provided that all members had the chance to vote, all you can do is count the votes actually cast and use that as the basis of the result. Yes, I think it would have been better if more members of the IFA should have voted, but as I'm not a member, I'm not really in much of a position to criticise them for apathy.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum