Brief: Election results in dispute

Discrepancies in student trustee election may lead to recount

VANESSA ARREDONDO Assistant News Editor @v_anana

Ryan Navarrete from Los Angeles Trade-Technical College won the election for the position of Student Trustee, beating Pierce College’s Milo Anderson with three votes.

4,143 students voted districtwide in this election with a 0.07 percent final result difference between both candidates.

Former Student Trustee candidate Anderson issued an official letter of complaint to Vice Chancellor Bobbi Kimble and to the Districtwide Elections Committee stating that “irregularities” may have occurred during election procedures.

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If found, the suspect could potentially face charges of grand theft. Section 487 of the California Penal Code defines the unlawful and intentional taking of any farm products valued at more than $250 as grand theft. Section 487 explicitly includes horses, sheep, pigs and crops in the law’s language. Shapiro estimated that the ram lamb was “probably worth a couple hundred dollars.”

“I would hope that when they go to jail and get convicted,” Shapiro said. “It would be known among the prisoners that they cruelly took an animal.”

Anderson received a letter from LA City College Vice President of Finance Gilbert L. Aguilar, Jr., in which Aguilar states that Navarrete advised him to encourage students who were enrolled and attending multiple LACCD campuses to vote for Navarrete at each campus.

According to Section 21005.10 of the board rules, students currently enrolled at each campus are eligible to vote. For a student’s vote to be valid, they must have had their current enrollment verified in the master enrollment list, signed the master enrollment list, and have provided photo identification at the time of voting. There is no rule in the Board Rules that specifically forbids students from voting at multiple campuses.

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