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Colin Raby

In the press · Article · February 9, 2023

Will campaign reforms open Student Government to all? First election season with new rules begins

By Claire Sullivan · The Reveille

Drawing on his own 2022 presidential run, Raby lays out the problems the new campaign-finance rules were meant to fix.

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Context

As Student Government's first election under new rules began (a $4,000 spending cap, a shorter season, two days of voting), The Reveille asked whether the reforms would level the playing field. Raby, a senator for the College of Engineering, said running for president in 2022 had given him "a crash course in the flaws of the election system," from family-funded campaigns to tickets that spent "absurd amounts of money on food to essentially just bribe voters."