by Rachel Rippetoe |
Today’s ASUP election for Executive Board and Senate ended in a runoff for the president and vice president positions.
The runoff election will be next Tuesday and Wednesday. The finalists for president and vice president are Brandon Rivera and Tsikata Apenyo and Krizchelle Magtoto and Anthony Ng.
With a total number of 1207 votes in the election - a turnout of only 34.06 percent of undergraduates, Rivera and Apenyo came in the lead with 536 votes (15.12 percent of expected votes, 44.7 percent of received votes), while Magtoto and Ng followed with 342 votes (9.65 percent of expected, 28.52 percent of received).
The position of communications director will also be voted on in the runoff election. Stephanie Tucker came in the lead with 547 votes, while Andrew Simon followed with 308 votes.
Magtoto and Ng plan to continue their campaign through Easter Break. Ng said the pair is working on a second campaign video showing more student voices.
“It’s just a way that students on the weekend can see who we are,” said Ng. “While they’re resting, we’ll be hard at work campaigning. It’s changing our Easter plans a little bit.”
For Rivera and Apenyo, Easter Break will be a time to recharge after a hard week of campaigning. Rivera said that the toughest part of campaigning was actually making sure everyone in the student body knew there was an election.
Rivera and Apenyo put out 72 fliers across campus and even spoke with students from a Bon Appetit food cart Wednesday.
While it seems to Rivera and Apenyo that their hard work has paid off, they recognize that multiple elections in a short amount of time are not just draining for them, but for all of the student body.
“This is like the third election in a month and I feel bad for the student body that they have to do this all over again,” Rivera said. “I wish we had just won this election right here, but we have to grab our group and tell them hey, we have to keep pushing through.”
Rachel Rippetoe is a reporter for The Beacon. She can be reached at rippetoe18@up.edu.
