The veto power is not reserved only to the president of the United States.
SGA President Owen Parrish vetoed a bill Oct. 23 on limiting campaign budgets.
Parrish said he vetoed the bill for many reasons, but mostly because the bill does not address improvement of the elections process.
"While this bill does impact how much one can spend, the claims that this bill would make campaigns more platform-based or decrease campaign-related concourse traffic are merely speculative and have not been supported by sufficient data or research," Parrish said.
The proposed bill focused primarily on limiting the budget to get rid of gimmicks to make the candidates focus more on their platforms.
Parrish said Auburn holds some of the most successful SGA elections out of any university in the country.
"Our voter turnout figures of 32.7% from the 2012 election cycle stand out from many of our peer institutions like the University of Alabama (30%), Florida State University (7%) and the University of Florida (20%)," Parrish said.
"While we can improve these numbers and strengthen the ability of candidates to provide the student body with accessible information, we must look at the elections process as a whole rather than one specific piece of this puzzle."
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