The remaining undergraduate student government election
candidates will have one more opportunity to win over the votes of
the student body as runoff elections begin today.
The runoff elections will be for president, internal vice
president and three general representatives.
No one candidate for president or IVP garnered more than 50
percent of the vote, and general representative candidates did not
obtain more than 25 percent of the vote, sending the candidates
with the most votes in each category to a runoff.
Starting today at 9 a.m., candidates participating in the runoff
elections can take part in another round of campaigning.
Just like the primary elections a week ago, students can log on
to the MyUCLA Web site and vote starting tonight at 7 p.m. until
Thursday 7 p.m. Voting will be closed between 12 a.m. to 7 a.m.
each day.
Last week’s primary elections revealed a slight drop in
voter turnout from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 24.2 percent this
year.
Students First! candidate Allende Palma/Saracho and Equal Access
Coalition candidate Josh Lawson are running for president, while
Genevieve Espinosa of Students First! and independent Darren Chan
compete for IVP. Six candidates return to the race for general
representative.
Chan says he will not change any of his campaign strategies and
anticipates that the turnout will decrease.
“Campaign intensity is higher this week because a sense of
urgency is higher (for candidates), but urgency among voters is not
as high,” Chan said.
Students First! general representative candidate Jenny Wood
plans to maintain the high energy level she had last week.
Other candidates also plan to continue their initial campaign
strategies.
Alonzo Martin Delcampo, a general representative running under
the Equal Access Coalition, said he would “turn up the notch
this week … recruiting people and meeting a lot of
people.”