Kristina Smith and her friends didn’t know they were careening toward scandal as they danced to the music of Kanye West outside a Duke University dining hall in March, while distributing fliers promoting Ms. Smith’s run for student-government president. The election police soon put a stop to the fun. The music came from an iPad, and someone snitched to the student-government attorney general—another Duke undergraduate—that the tablet violated Section 6 of the election code, which bars candidates from soliciting votes while...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 26, 2018 16:07 UTC