Axe the Exec.

In Schedule 3 of the V.U.C. Students' Association Constitution (Conduct of Elections). Article 40 states as follows:—

"No member of the Association shall on the day of the poll or election,

(a) In any way interfere with any elector either in the polling booth or on the way thereto with the intention of influencing him or advising him as to his vote.

(b) Print, distribute, or deliver to any person, or exhibit or place in or on any conspicuous part of the college anything having thereon any matter likely to influence any vote."

During the recent executive elections it came to my notice that photographs of candidates were placed, by person or persons unknown, in the glass shrine in the main college hall.

Though I doubted at the time that this would have any effect on the result of the elections. I have now as a successful candidate, revised my former opinion. Surely this serious affront to the freedom of elections, imparting as it must have done, a strong prejudice in the minds of the electors, must be deplored by all freedom-loving students, especially when we read that in elections in certain districts in Czechoslovakia during the recent communist coup d'etat, photographs were used instead of ballot papers.

It is clear that our recent elections must be declared invalid, and a caretaker Exec. be set up immediately in toto.