Letter to the Editor
By Mark McShera, Orange and Blue Party chairman
The UF Supreme Court has rendered its decision on online voting and in the process, denigrated the signatures of 5,700 UF students.
By flouting the will of the student body, the court has rejected the idea of representative democracy and imposed a dictatorship of the few over the many.
In 2006, 85 percent of voters supported the idea of implementing online voting in Student Government elections.
Over the last four months, 12 percent of the student body pledged their signature to a petition mandating online voting in Student Government elections.
Four unelected justices should not be able to circumvent the voice of the students at UF. Students have spoken, and they overwhelmingly want online voting.
The court claims online voting endangers fundamental principles of democracy enshrined in the federal, state and UF constitutions.
Rather than lecturing the students on violations of fundamental principles of democracy, the court should aim to not commit these flagrant transgressions themselves.
