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[ Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 ]

Fines may result in Bundy's disqualification

Collegian Staff Writer

University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) presidential candidate Jay Bundy will be receiving more fines that could take him out of the race and delay the election results.

The fine is for the unstamped copies of his "100-day plan" that Bundy distributed at the UPUA debate on Monday.

Also, unstamped flyers advertising a video of the debate posted on Bundy's Web site, an unstamped poster hanging outside of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and an unstamped poster outside of Bundy's house are currently under investigation.

"There was also a poster hanging outside of Phi Gamma Delta for Jay Chamberlin's vice president. He and Bundy's vice president are both in the same fraternity," Ashley Hill, UPUA elections commissioner, said. "The Bundy one was not stamped."

Financial statements were due today at noon. All election material must be registered with the election commission with a stamp, which then gets recorded on the candidate's financial statement. Hill said that Bundy may not have expected to receive any further fines.

"That's a risk he takes," Hill said. "If he spent over his budget, he is automatically disqualified."

The elections commission has been unable to reach Bundy, and they cannot release the details of his fines before allowing him time to plea his case.

Hill said that most anything Bundy hands out this late in his campaign would be a violation.

"Last night, he did not show up at the stamping session," she said. "For 10 days he hasn't gotten anything stamped."

Hill said that the elections results cannot be revealed until all fines have been resolved.

"Since it is close, we are not going to announce the winners until we have taken these fines into account," she said.

Check the Daily Collegian online for further updates.


 



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