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<p>Supervisor of Elections Toni Megna, 21, presents her contingency plan at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.</p>

Supervisor of Elections Toni Megna, 21, presents her contingency plan at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.

During Tuesday night's Student Senate meeting, UF's Supervisor of Elections presented her backup plan for the spring elections but did not bring a list of secondary polling locations.

Toni Megna did not accept questions.

She divided her plan for the Feb. 21 and Feb. 22 elections into several sections.

If less than half of the 11 polling locations are down, poll workers will direct students to other locations.

If more than half are down for less than an hour, the time will not be made up.

If that many are down between one and six hours, polls will stay open three hours later.

But if this occurs on the last voting day, the time will not be made up.

If more than half are down for more than six hours on any day, voting will resume on the run-off days, Feb. 28 and Feb. 29.

Megna also said the Election Commission will approve the list of polling locations on Friday at 5:30 p.m.

According to election codes, Megna was also supposed to present a list of backup polling locations.

But at Tuesday's meeting, she said that would be impossible.

"Only possible way to have [polling locations] in a moment's notice or a couple hours are to have unsecured location voting," she said.

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This violates the election codes, she said.

After the meeting, Megna said she talked to the voting program facilitator, Steven Bourdon, on Monday about the locations.

She said she learned that having secondary locations would be impossible.

After the meeting, Election Code Revision Committee co-chair Katie Waldman said she was not aware backup polling locations would be impossible.

"I would like to look [the plan] over and see if it follows the revisions," she said.

Students Party Sen. Gillian Leytham said after the meeting that Megna's plans seemed incoherent.

"Her job is to provide detailed procedures if something were to go wrong," she said. "And she provided us with nonsense."

Supervisor of Elections Toni Megna, 21, presents her contingency plan at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.

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