{"id":347,"date":"2008-04-02T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidersed.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/02\/march-2008-ams-referendum-results\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T22:40:39","slug":"march-2008-ams-referendum-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2008\/04\/02\/march-2008-ams-referendum-results\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2008 AMS Referendum results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Due to a hole in WordPress, this post&#8217;s author is misattributed. The follow was written by former Insiders editor <a mce_href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/1950\/01\/01\/insiders-alumni\/#maayan\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/1950\/01\/01\/insiders-alumni\/#maayan\">Maayan Kreitzman<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t forget the below posts. It&#8217;s a busy week!<\/i><br \/><i><\/i><br \/>Well, unoficial results are in, and all the questions have been approved with a majority &#8216;yes&#8217; vote. Here are the numbers:<\/p>\n<p>Overall turnout: 44%<br \/>Total votes: 18,446<\/p>\n<p><b>U-Pass renewal                                        <\/b>NO: 500         YES: 17,945 ;    97.2% in favour<br \/><b>Bylaw reforms                                          <\/b>NO: 1284        YES: 4357 ;       77.3% in favour<br \/><b>WUSC (student refugee subsidy)<\/b>    NO: 2162        YES: 8363 ;      79.4% in favour<br \/><b>SUB renewal fee<\/b>                                      NO: 6228        YES: 7342;         54% in favour<\/p>\n<p>Good overall turnout &#8211; the quorum of 10% of daytime students was met in every question easily. SUB renewal fee passed by a very thin margin. I suspect the AMS will have to do a helluva good consultation to create the level of buy-in that&#8217;s really needed. 54% isn&#8217;t great &#8211; particularly considering that all the students that voted will be paying $40\/year max towards the building (not much compared to the cost to future cycles of students). More discussion of SUB renew to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a hole in WordPress, this post&#8217;s author is misattributed. The follow was written by former Insiders editor Maayan Kreitzman. Don&#8217;t forget the below posts. It&#8217;s a busy week!Well, unoficial results are in, and all the questions have been approved with a majority &#8216;yes&#8217; vote. Here are the numbers: Overall turnout: 44%Total votes: 18,446 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ams","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}