ASUSU primary election results announced
Fewer than 100 students gathered outside the Fusion HD3 office to listen to the announcement of the ASUSU primary election winners Friday afternoon on the third floor of the TSC.
Tyler Tolson and Nils Nelson will move on to the final election for president of ASUSU. The votes were close with Tolson getting 560 and Nelson with 540. Josh Nagao came close to Nelson with 530 votes.
Amber Winward came close to moving into the finals for executive vice president with 505 votes, but Bradley Carr was able to top her, getting 511 votes. However, both candidates were drastically shadowed by Spencer Lee who received 866 votes.
Erin Reeder and Walter Voisard will battle it out for programming vice president. Reeder received 1,491 votes and Voisard received 682.
For service vice president, Dave Knighton and Jordan Stone will move on with 1,589 and 780 votes, respectively.
Krista Bustamonte received 1,198 votes for campus diversity and organization vice president with Bill Sproat coming in second with 923 votes.
Tyler Haws pulled into the lead for student advocate with 1,343 votes, with Daniel Ricks acquiring 664 votes.
Jordan Knecht and Landon Essig will move into the next round for business senator with 141 and 130 votes, respectively.
HASS senator finalists were Josie Olsen with 370 votes and Nicole Smith with 160.
Science senator winners were Todd Redmon with 107 votes and Mikaelle “Miki” Giffin with 86.
The runners for academic senator president, education senator, engineering senator and athletics vice president all got a bye since only two people ran for the positions. Ben Croshaw and Jamon Hemingway will continue to final elections for academic senator president, Erik Wynn and Matthew Wright for education senator, Andrew Hobbson and May Bo Hsu for engineering senator, Megan Furniss and Jeremy Winn for athletics vice president.
Each winner got an interview with Fusion HD3 and can be found at http://www.radio.usu.edu/.
Elections committee member Bill Munns said the voter turnout was good and was attributable to the use of Facebook and texting. He estimates about 3,000 students voted in this year’s primaries.
According to ASUSU voting records, 1,560 students voted during the primaries in 2008 and during the final election 2,865 voted.
The winners of the primaries will have to freeze their campaign until after 7 a.m. Monday, Munns said.
There will be a debate between the presidential candidates Monday at noon in the Hub, and there will be free Aggie Ice Cream, Munns said.
–mark.d.vuong@aggiemail.usu.edu