The Hatchet’s Editorial Board argues that the SA should re-examine the newly passed bill eliminating the need for SA candidates to gather signatures to get on the ballot.

“If candidates no longer have to get these signatures, it does encourage more students to run, but it also means that limitless joke candidates would have little stopping them from running, apart from filing some paperwork with the Joint Elections Committee. In previous elections, before candidates needed to get signatures to become official, joke candidates were the norm rather than the exception from year to year.”

Read the full editorial here.