Record voting and participation leads to runoff elections for 13 ASI student government positions

June 2, 2010 3:00pm

This year's election for Associated Students Inc. student government positions generated unprecedented student participation as well as a huge voter turnout - so huge, in fact, that ASI must hold runoff elections for 13 of the 18 positions to determine next year's officers.

Voting, which is done online through Blackboard, was open May 20-29, but there were no clear winners for several positions, according to Marguerite Hinrichs, director of student life and leadership programs. Each position had multiple candidates, and the top two vote-getters from each will face off in runoffs this week.

Runoff voting begins on Blackboard at noon Thursday, June 3 and will be open through 11:59 p.m. Saturday, June 5. (Registered students — vote now!) Hinrichs said ASI hopes to announce winners before the end of the quarter next week.

The declared winners for the other five positions are:

Jennifer Stern, Academic Senate, Student Member
Laura Banuelos, Academic Senate, Student Member
Lokesh Vijakumar, Academic Senate, Student Member
Sara Holdridge, Director, College of Education and Allied Studies
Christopher Caldwell, Director, Concord Campus