Tan requests vote recount

By Kelly Rayburn
DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
[email protected]

Ballots from last week’s Undergraduate Students
Association Council presidential election ““ one of the
closest in UCLA history ““ will be recounted, the USAC
elections board announced Monday.

Academic Affairs Commissioner and Student Empowerment!
presidential candidate Bryant Tan requested the recount Friday,
after it was announced he lost the election to Students United for
Reform and Equality candidate David Dahle by 0.8 percent ““
the slimmest of margins.

Under E-Board guidelines, “A candidate may request a
recount if the margin of difference is 1 percent or less for that
particular office, within 24 hours after the results are
posted.”

Tan said he has no suspicion of any improper counting, he just
wants to make sure the outcome was correct.

“I just wanted to have the recount to validate it because
it was so close,” Tan said. “I don’t have any
expectations (about the outcome).”

The results of the recount are set to be announced by 2 p.m.
Friday, though they might be available earlier, according to a
statement from E-Board Chair Matthew Kaczmarek.

Kaczmarek was not available for comment last night after
multiple phone calls.

The board will also be busy later this week counting ballots
from the internal vice president runoff election, which begins
Wednesday between Student Empowerment!’s T.J. Cordero and
SURE’s Justin Levi. Neither candidate garnered the necessary
50 percent of votes to win the office last week.