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The results of ESC’s virtual election are in, and the winner is…online voting. In contrast to last week’s abysmal turnout at the CCSC polls, over half of SEAS undergrads participated in this year’s contest (well, barely…exactly 50.9% voted). And that’s without the ability to directly choose SEAS’ highest leaders!
Of course, the above figure is an average: participation dropped steadily as students got older, from 77.5% of freshmen to 31.6% of seniors. SEAS grad students, though, took the cake – only 1.3% of them bothered to log on to help choose the school’s University Senator.
Full results for the ESC’s democratically-chosen positions below…
Academic Affairs Representative
|
Michael Fu |
278 |
|
Samantha Wilner |
343 |
|
No Response |
87 |
|
Total |
708 |
Alumni Affairs and Professional Development Representative
|
Shanita Nicholas |
125 |
|
Joanne Rispoli |
211 |
|
James Tsai |
264 |
|
No Response |
108 |
|
Total |
708 |
Student Services Representative
|
Patti Lin |
284 |
|
Peter Valeiras |
333 |
|
No Response |
91 |
|
Total |
708 |
CCSC Liaison
|
Daniel Gundrum |
231 |
|
Ken Yearwood |
379 |
|
No Response |
98 |
|
Total |
708 |
GSSC Liaison
|
Whitney Green |
574 |
|
No Response |
134 |
|
Total Respondents |
708 |
SGA Liaison
|
Rajat Roy |
567 |
|
No Response |
141 |
|
Total |
708 |
University Senator
|
Amit Bedi |
315 |
|
Esther Zuckerman |
295 |
|
No Reponse |
112 |
|
Total* |
722 |
Class of 2008 – President
|
Eash Cumarasamy |
145 |
|
No Response |
24 |
|
Total |
169 |
Class of 2008 – Vice President
|
Shreyans Khemka |
147 |
|
No Response |
22 |
|
Total |
169 |
Class of 2008 – Class Representatives
|
Jessica Aspis |
124 |
|
Amy Lin |
133 |
Class of 2009 – President
|
Warren Reed |
151 |
|
No Response |
24 |
|
Total |
175 |
Class of 2009 – Vice President
|
Erin Svokos |
147 |
|
No Response |
28 |
|
Total |
175 |
Class of 2009 – Class Representatives
|
Samantha John |
140 |
|
Lauren Minches |
126 |
Class of 2010 – President
|
Heather Lee |
214 |
|
No Response |
31 |
|
Total |
245 |
Class of 2010 -Vice President
|
Lili Gu |
205 |
|
No Response |
40 |
|
Total |
245 |
Class of 2010 – Class Representatives
|
Gunnar Aasen |
198 |
|
Kelly Chen |
186 |
*Includes Grad Students
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@elections Stop making excuses by saying that SEAS bribed people in order to get a higher voter turn out. It comes down to the fact that SEAS students can vote in their rooms and don’t have to walk to Lerner. Also, Dan Okin did not bribe the First Year class. He made a deal with the First Year class council that if they could get 80% of their class to vote he would give them a party. He knew it wouldn’t happen. The First Years then had to do the work in bribing people. Also, the best candidates in this election did not win. This is the problem with school-wide elections. It comes down to a popularity contest instead of voting for the person most qualified. ESC realizes this, so E-board elections are done internally to ensure that only the best, most qualified students have the highest positions.
@DHI Clearly the difference is that it’s a lot easier to vote online than to walk to specific places and vote.
@hellllllo? Well….. 50.9% is more impressive than 30something percent when you look at it by proportions… but by sheer numbers, CCSC’s 1500 voters is larger than about 700 ESC voeters. So, while proportional turnout was higher, it is easier to get a higher percentage when you’re working with less people to begin with.
Plus, all of Dan Okin’s emails out to all of us probably shows he is trying to make us look more democratic by saying “look, we have more voters therefore we don’t need contested elections.” Plus, he was bribing the freshmen class council with a big party to get them to get people to vote. It looks like this is a scam to get BWOG and ESC critics to stop bugging them; but, BWOG, don’t be fooled by these schemes!
@bwog is still pretty snarky about the lack of democracy in the ESC:
“And that’s without the ability to directly choose SEAS’ highest leaders!”
“Full results for the ESC’s democratically-chosen positions below… ”
note the emphasis.
@On a related note, this week the Philolexian Society will be debating Resolved: Student Government is Incredibly Lame.
Thursday, 8:30pm, Wien Lounge
@come on Rounding with sig figs–> 80%!
Great job, though, 2010! :)
@actually rounding with sig figs would be 78% as everything is to 2 digits, at a minimum.
you’re not a good engineer.
@wow and none of the class council’s were opposed, i’m pretty impressed with ESC
@Erf Don’t like it? Run against them.
@just shows you don’t need no e-board elections to get a good turnout!
@2010 was SO CLOSE TO 80