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Despite a 70 percent voter turnout and 1,401 ballots cast, there were no lines
at the polls in Cotter Union when Student Government Association elections were
held April 8. Voting was conducted exclusively on the Internet as Colby
students participated in the first paperless election in the College's 185-year
history.
Students could vote from any computer on the campus's local network, whether
in their dorm rooms or public computer clusters. Students abroad this semester
had to vote by proxy since the ballot was not on a Web page visible from
outside the campus network. A code was used to ensure that eligible students
could vote only once.
In the top race, Benjamin Langille '99 of Lawrenceville, N.J., and running
mate Braden Sicchitano '99 of Wellesley, Mass., won the race for SGA president
and vice president.
The SGA's online election was held the same week that Yahoo! Internet
Life magazine announced that Colby is, once again, one of "America's 100
Most-Wired Colleges."
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