Chief Returning Officer
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| Current CRO: | Camille Warner |
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| Email: | cro@mcgilleus.ca |
What is the Chief Returning Officer?
The Chief Returning Officer is largely in charge of the organization and supervision of Official Elections of the EUS. Additionally, the CRO generally is a reference for the Deputy Returning Officers (DROs), who are in charge of the organization and supervision of their departmental society's elections. This organization often consists of ensuring awareness of campaigning and election bylaws, encouraging voters to be informed and vote, and moderating anything inbetween.
Responsibilities
Creation of the Electoral Calendar
Part of the job of the CRO is to plan the entire schedule for information periods, campaigning, and voting for the upcoming academic year. This constitutes the Electoral Calendar, and must be presented to the EUS Board of Governors for ratification (by simple majority) at the Board's second session of the Summer. The Electoral Calendar, if approved, is then made public in the week following. This is per Article 3.1.5 of the Electoral and Referendum Bylaws.
Referenda
The CRO has a variety of responsibilities regarding referenda. First and foremost, the CRO should be aware of all McGill-imposed due dates for referendum questions. Most questions concerning EUS student fees collected by McGill are subject to this date sensitivity. In general, the EUS President should be aware of when these dates are, as they are critical to the planning of the Chief Returning Officer#Creation of the electoral calendar.
Publicizing the referendum The General Assembly of Fall 2017 resulted in a change to the organization of referendum forum for discussion.
As in all cases, the role of the CRO is also to assist DROs in their referenda when they arise. In many referenda cases, this involves assisting DROs in the interpretation or understanding of their departmental bylaws, or in the navigation of the grey zone between EUS Bylaws and respective departmental bylaws.