Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: 2017 Rector Election at Ghent University

After more than half a year Leather Keychain of elections (yielding three voting stages and nine voting rounds), the 2017 Rector election at Ghent University (Belgium) resulted in a victory for the duo leading all nine voting rounds, and in a resounding defeat for the electoral system.Significant regulation changes were needed in order to break the institutional deadlock in which Vibration Pad Ghent University found itself.In this paper, we follow the timeline of the election and dissect what went wrong in the election planning.