[Tippiechick]

I think Taualumna called it hazing for two reasons: 1) the pledges were advised during a pledge meeting about the way the Machine's system worked and basically advised to go along with it and 2) the pledges were not allowed to vote; they had to turn over their ID info so that the actives could vote the way the Machine wanted.

As has been said before, the Machine is simply making use of block voting. While some of their tactics are questionable, they aren't doing anything campus groups haven't been doing for years: band together to elect who they want.