The move is at least partially driven by concerns of low voter turnout. Less than three percent of the undergraduate student body participated in the constitutional referendum last semester.
Undergraduate Student Government elections have been postponed until April 18, according to a statement from USG Vice President of Communications Brody Hooper.
The USG Senate confirmed members of the Elections Board on Thursday after the discovery that board members had not been vetted or confirmed for the past three years.
Members of the USG Elections Board have not been confirmed by the Senate in three years, calling the board’s legitimacy into question in the middle of election season.
A candidate in the 2015 USG elections claimed to the USG Supreme Court that a “no confidence” option on the ballot unfairly affected the results of the elections.
