Election process at Junior College vitiated - SDM

Attempts to disqualify students at the Junior College from voting for their representatives in an election held yesterday, were made by the electoral commission, Studenti Demokristjani Maltin said.

SDM said in a statement that the process leading up to this election has been anything but democratic, clean and fair.

Irrespective of the result, it said, it was concerned about a number of incidents.

These included not allowing candidates to vote because they tagged a photo on Facebook, which photo contained only fellow candidates.

The commission also attempted to disqualify other students from voting with these students being accused of having violated the rule of silence on Facebook.

The SDM argued that this was a computer manipulation since even the electoral commission, which had a majority nominated by Pulse, had to accept that these accusations could not stand. It said Pulse was not, however, subject to any level of scrutiny on the incident.

The organisation said that a member of the electoral commission nominated by Pulse distributed Pulse leaflets after being warned not to do so.

It said that the head of the electoral commission, who represented Pulse, did not remain impartial and was regularly seen seemingly consulting the president of Pulse, casting doubt on his integrity.

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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091212/local/pulse-wins-ksjc-elections