Hack points awarded

As promised, the Devil's Advocate is awarding "hack points" to each candidate. After much deliberation from our entire editors and writers board today, we have a conclusions.

And the hack points go to...
Most hack points: Matthew Naylor (9)
Least hack points: Irish Courage (-2)
Special "jam points" award: Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes (666)

Special award for most hack points in one action: (tie!)
Alex Lougheed, for handing out flyers while dancing at Mardi Gras.
Mike Duncan, for name dropping Stephen Lewis in response to our question.
Rob McLean, for having groupies.

How do we reccomend you use these hack points? Well, we suggest finding the range you're comfortable voting in - AMS insiders could be comfortable in the 6-9 range, but we'd suggest the 0 - 4 range for the rest of us. Then find the candidates on our list, and vote!


The Full List

President
Matt Naylor: 9
Michael Duncan: 7
Erin Rennie: 2
Che Allison: -1
Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes: 666 jam points

VP Academic
Alex Lougheed: 6
Rob McLean: 3
Fire Hydrant: 0
Nathan Crompton: -1

VP Finance:
Andrew Forshner: 6
Chris Diplock: 1
Irish Courage: -2

VP Admin:
Sarah Naiman: 4
*Yian Messoloras: 4
Scary Mike the Rabbi: -1

External:
*Freeman Poritz: 3
Stefanie Ratjen: -1

Board of Governors:
Cris Marincat: 2
Bijan Ahmadian: 2
Tim Blair: 2
Andrew Carne: 0
Fiddler Crab: -1
Malt Likkah: -1
Rodrigo Again: 666 jam points

Senate:
Alex Lougheed: 6
Colin Simkus: 4
Blake Frederick: 3
Rob McLean: 3
Alfie Lee: 2
Philip Edgecumbe: 2
Aidha Shaikh: 1
Eileen Harder: 1
Azim Wazeer: 1

* has been disendorsed already. Kept on list for archival reasons.


What the hack do these mean?

How did we award hack points? The following offences were worthy of a hack point, with exceptionally outstanding displays of hackery.

• name dropping
• shameless campaigning (including "flyerfucking" ... as in "Hey I just flyerfucked Buchanan!")
• endorsement wars
• making stuff (esp. endorsements) up
• a year in student government
• a pet issue
• being too close to the VFM
• being "shamed" by an audience
• avoiding questions or giving excuses as answers
• being boring
• involvement (prior to or during campaign) with Liberal Party
• looking too much like a politicial (esp. displaying Canada flag behind you in candidate picture, and pictures with Children) or a tool
• general douchebaggery

And some things were worth negative hack points

• communist tendencies
• being disliked by members of student government
• running for the Radical Beer Faction
• being generally awesome (needed unanimous vote)