
And tonight, I think we can take a small step in the right direction by voting for a non-binding ballot question.” “(But) our actions show that we don’t, because 9 out of 10 eligible voters at this University don’t vote … It does not have to be that way. “We say we care about our constituents,” Fioritto said. Tyler Fioritto, chair of the CSG Ethics Committee, expressed concerns about low voter turnout and pushed for a non-binding question to be included on the Winter 2023 ballot that would ask voters about expanding the CSG election period from two to five days in the future. For general purposes of transparency, the meeting minutes right now from what I can see are not shared for most Student Accounts.”

There are certainly better and clearer ways to construct that.

“You have to first go to the resources, then elections, then the elections transparency portal, then you’d have to look through that. “Right now, the election resources on the website are quite hidden and hard to find,” Kaufman said. He said he felt the CSG website lacks accessibility to documents that would help inform the campus community about the candidates, including the meeting minutes from past CSG meetings. The assembly also resumed discussions on a resolution which would ask University administration to once again count AP/IB credits towards enrollment priority, though the resolution was decisively struck down by an assembly vote.ĭuring the public comment section of the meeting, LSA freshman Elijah Kaufman expressed concerns about election transparency for the upcoming CSG elections. The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met Tuesday evening in a hybrid format to discuss the upcoming elections on March 29 and 30.
