Election Committee

Responsibilities of the Committee:

• Strive to ensure that the election is fairly run;
• Decide whether a candidate has violated the election rules;
• Remain impartial and unbiased on election issues or candidates and make no public statements concerning the election except in respect to election procedural matters;
• Ensure that an election web site is created and updated;
• Strive to record the proceedings at all public forums; and
• Within sixty (60) days of the end of the polling period, submit a report to Students’ Council that details its decisions during the election, summarizes the results of the election, including voter turnout by faculty, and recommends improvements for future elections.

Contact Information: Allan Babor, (pres@feds.ca ), President and Committee Chair Current Committee Make Up: 1 Councillor, 1 Student At-Large, and 1 Member of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures Committee

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a term by term basis.

Length/Time commitment of committee: This committee must meet at least once per academic term (if a by-election is held, the commitment would be regular meetings through the 2-3 week election cycle).

Election Appeals Committee

Responsibilities of the Committee: Adjudicate any appeals made my the Elections Committee

Contact Information: Allan Babor, (pres@feds.ca ), President and Committee Chair Current

Committee Make Up: 3 Councillors

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a term by term basis.

Time commitments of the Committee: This committee typically doesn't meet unless there is an appeal from a by-election decision (so maybe expect 1-3 meetings).

Referendum Committee

Responsibilities of Committee:

• Act impartial and unbiased on referendum issues and make no public written and/or oral statements concerning the referendum except in respect to referendum procedural matters.
• Within sixty (60) days of the end of the polling period, submit a report to Council reviewing each referendum, including any decisions made by the committee, and recommendations for future referendums.
• Cast all decisions as to unfair campaigning and in all cases of dispute in referendum procedure.Discipline any side in a referendum for contravening these regulations. Any side so disciplined may appeal the decision to the Referendum Appeals Committee whose decision will be final.
• Update the posting regulations stipulated by Plant Operations and the administrations of Architecture, Village residences, Conrad Grebel, St. Jerome’s, St. Paul's, and Renison.
• Be responsible for the creation of a Federation of Students’referendum website.
• Create a valid voters list for each referendum question being decided.
• Ensure that the online ballot and offline ballot used for referendum voting are correct.
• Test the online voting system and ballot.
• Ensure that undergraduate students who are not on the Voter's List but are members of the Federation of Students, and are eligible to vote, are able to vote offline.
• Strive to record the proceedings of all public forums

Contact Information: Contact John Andersen (jr2ander@feds.uwaterloo.ca ), Executive Researcher from further information.

Committee Make Up: 1 Chief Returning Officer, who must me a member of the Federation of Students and is Chair of the Committee; 1 member of the Federation of Students who has been or is a member of the Bylaws, Policies and Procedures Committee;. 2 members of Students’ Council; and 1 undergraduate student-at-large.

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on an Ad hoc basis

Time commitments of the Committee: Expect a strong time commitment before, during and immediately after a referendum.

Referendum Appeals Committee

Responsibilities of Committee:

• Consider all appeals of Referendum Committee decisions;
• Remain impartial and unbiased on referendum issues and make no public statements concerning a referendum except in regard to election procedural matters, and If it made decisions, submit a report to Students’ Council that details its decisions, within sixty (60) days of the end of the polling period.

Contact Information: Contact John Andersen (jr2ander@feds.uwaterloo.ca ), Executive Researcher from further information.

Committee Make Up: 3 at large students

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on an Ad hoc basis Time commitments of the Committee: Expect a small time commitment.