Lyssa Schei News Today

The upcoming Associated Students of the University of Montana election comes with a number of candidates campaigning for change, after a year where candidates claim the senate’s bureaucracy got in

“I needed to resign to whistleblow the corruption in ASUM,” Schei said.  Schei said this year’s election cycle has brought bylaw issues with ASUM to the forefront, especially when it comes to yearly elections. She said ASUM has no rules to ensure that those running for office have to be ethical in their races, which she said was evident after her opponents, Noah Durnell and Canyon Lock, weren’t punished for a bylaw infraction. This came up at the most recent ASUM meeting ...

The chair of the ASUM election committee resigned yesterday after the Senate voted against punishing a pair of executive candidates for a bylaw infraction, just one week before the 2021 election. Cierra Anderson, former ASUM elections chair, brought the grievance against candidate pair Noah Durnell and Canyon Lock for illegally using a third party endorsement, an action forbidden in the ASUM bylaws. “I agreed to be the elections chair so I could help run a fair election, and the Senate las...