“I’m not trying to defer the fault for this. There’s plenty of blame to go around,” Davis said. “Its really tough putting together an election like this.”
Council officials lauded FASCS’ effort and were confident that the glitch wouldn’t affect election results.
“I can say without a single grain of uncertainty that the integrity of the elections was not affected,” Chopra said.
Jack McCambridge, a chair on last year’s Campus Life Committee who is also running in the elections, said that the council’s reliance on FASCS to run their elections is a double-edged sword.
“The difficulty is that we do have to rely on FAS data, its important to the legitimacy of the vote. Its bad that these mistakes occur, but they tackled them really early at a time when most people don’t vote. It could have been a much bigger problem,” he said.
—Staff writer Ebonie D. Hazle can be reached at hazle@fas.harvard.edu.