BEC plans to begin MSA elections on Monday after successful site test
The Board of Elections Commissioners and Division of Information Technology tried to run another MSA online voting test last night at 10 p.m. However, during the test window, the Web site, vote.missouri.edu, read "Due to technical Difficulties with the voting server, The MSA elections will now be held from Monday November 17th at 6pm through Wednesday November 19th at 6pm".
BEC Chairman Justin Mohn said this message was put on the Web site after a miscommunication between himself and the student government adviser, Farouk Aregbe.
Although the two had talked about posting the message earlier on Tuesday, Mohn said he was not aware Aregbe had already applied it as of Tuesday evening when Mohn asked test voters to cast their ballots.
The BEC was able to route the voters around to the DoIT servers this afternoon and ran a mock election from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"I haven't heard any errors back about it," Mohn said of today's test. "We have decided that in light of that test, we're going to go ahead and say our plan is to use the online mechanism to do the voting next week."
Mohn added that the BEC's back-up plan is to vote by e-mail. He said not all the details for e-mail ballots have been worked out yet.
Aregbe and DoIT representatives were not available for comment.