It would have been nice to finally have resolve and move on past our own little election season, but apparently the fat lady hasn’t sung.

In politics, and just about anything else, a 20 percent margin of victory is a blowout. The final score of Unite carrying 59.8 percent of the vote to Impact’s 40.2 percent set a new record in Student Government elections.

Considering those results, it is only more embarrassing to contest them. Why draw more attention to yourself? It is clear the student body would rather John Woodard as its president.

Are you that selfish to throw the reputation of all Student Government under the bus just so you can assume a position you did not earn?

You cannot lead a community that does not support you. Philosophers, world leaders and political greats alike have always agreed with the notion that if a leader loses popular support, he has lost the ability to lead.

This election complaint, and now subsequent appeal, could not be more a perfect example of poor sportsmanship.

To try and overturn an election by filing a complaint on what was essentially a clerical error — a 30-minute tardiness — is bush league. Our problematic election board was able, by the best of its ability, to justly rule on the tardiness as acceptable. However, apparently as of Monday, Impact is trying to appeal that ruling.

The election board poorly reviewed the “discrepancies” on banners that disqualified John Woodard and his election-sweeping ticket. The quoted prices did reveal that the banners were bought at a cheaper price, but the election board did not take into consideration other prominent factors that deemed the banners were bought at a fair price.

A fatal mistake for Impact.

Anyway, I am not so certain that the absence of those banners would have helped T Graham S. Howell’s campaign enough to swing the 20 percent margin in his favor. By the looks of it, Woodard could have run with push cards alone and won.

Perhaps the Unite campaign did find a loophole. Some may call that cheating the system, but others would just call it intelligent.

But how in the first place could it have been discerned that Howell rightfully deserved the presidency, when it only took three votes by an appointed election board to overturn the whole election?

After attending Sunday night’s trial, I realized the amount of personal bias on the election board was comical. The only real discrepancy in this situation was Trey White admitting his personal opinion on the matter, which contrasted what he thought was right.

It was evident that the election board commissioner Aimeé Simon had taken too much personal offense, as if she were defending a candidate.

The UCourt’s decision should’ve been made easy by the efforts of the Unite ticket’s counsel composed of Kristina Lagasse, Robbie Mahtook and Joe Gipson. Really, from the beginning, they displayed a sharpness that would tell the rest of the tale, running circles around the election board.

The election board’s defense got more laughs than agreeing nods from the viewing gallery.

I get Simon was pressed for time, and she tried her best. She never wanted to disqualify anyone. However, all she did was prove the board wasn’t up to the task.

It has been well established that some change needs to be made in Student Government, and I think a glaring change should be made on the scrutiny over the selection of the election board and commissioner. If the board did its best, it was obvious its best wasn’t good enough for the job.

Another issue weighing on many minds was the apparent conflict of interest and bias on the election board and the UCourt charged with hearing the case. Chief Justice Morgan Faulk and Howell’s friendship is publicly acknowledged — seemingly making it difficult for her to rule without bias.

But I was impressed with the UCourt’s conduction of what could have easily become a Kangaroo Court.

I have to give it to Howell and Impact who are still going down a-swinging — sticking to their initiative of making an impact at LSU.

But why another appeal? How many times are you going to lose in one election?

A final note, Howell should change his Twitter bio from SG president-elect to former SG presidential candidate.