While students approved referenda to change the Student Council constitution and to add more College representatives to the Honor Committee, the referendum to change the single sanction system failed to pass.
The result for a referendum changing the Arts & Sciences Council constitution was not available because of a ballot error that allowed students outside the College to vote on the amendment.
"The results are still pending for referendum one," said Steve Yang, University Board of Elections chair.
A UBE release stated, "Upon completion of polling, all votes from outside the College had to be assumed to be 'No' votes. There was a mathematical possibility that the referendum would still pass despite this subtraction. However, this situation did not arise and the referendum is considered not to have passed."
The release also stated that the UBE and the ASC will discuss what further actions might be taken in regard to the referendum, and noted that the UBE will consider using a "five-hour preview period" in the future. The UBE currently uses this safeguard on other, non-referenda ballots.
Referendum two, which passed by a considerable margin, consisted of a number of Student Council constitutional amendments, including allowing the executive vice president to be elected by Council representatives, requiring all representatives to serve on the Appropriations Committee and eliminating fall elections. The referendum was approved by 82.7 percent of voters, according to UBE election results.
Outgoing Student Council President Darius Nabors said, "These are great changes, solving issues that have been around for years."
The third referendum on the ballot, which raised the number of elected College representatives on the Honor Committee from three to five, also passed by a large margin, with 73.3 percent voting in favor of the referendum.
In the tightest of the referendum races, referendum four, which proposed, according to a UBE election release, "a non-binding recommendation for a change to the current sanctioning system of the Honor System," failed to pass. Had referendum four passed, the spring 2008 election ballot would have featured a binding referendum vote regarding the proposition of a multiple sanction or alternative sanction honor system to replace the single sanction system currently in place.
According to UBE election results, 50.5 percent of students voted against the proposal, while 49.5 percent of students voted in favor of it.
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