The point of an election is to evaluate someone’s performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by...

The problem, as I see it, [is that] I was unfortunately not committed enough to Student Council at the end of the first semester that I didn’t find in myself [enough motivation] to put together...

Fortunately, the system I had set up allowed room for this lag. But all that has now been worked out, and no new appointments are needed until the end of this semester.

When [the special election] happened and I had to make the choice to run again, I realized that I didn’t want to be on Student Council anymore, mostly because I did a lot of work,...

Appointments chair is a position with an unreasonably disproportionate amount of power.

Because no appointments need to be made until the end of this semester, not having a database now does not hurt anyone or complicate anything. So I don’t feel bad about holding onto the database...