Voting begins today for ASUO general election
A total of 11 student government seats, including the ASUO Executive, are still up for grabs in the general election beginning today.
Students can vote for candidates to fill the remaining contested spots anytime after 9 a.m. Voting ends on Monday at 5 p.m. To vote, click on DuckWeb on the main University Web page, http://www.uoregon.edu/. Log onto DuckWeb and click on Student Menu and a link for the 2004 elections will appear.
ASUO Elections spokesman Nathan Strauss said voter turnout for the general election tends to be lower than the turnout for the primary. This decrease is because fewer candidates are running, less campaigning is held and many students aren’t even aware there is a second election, he said. He added that the general election is, in many ways, more important than the primary election.
Last year, 14.3 percent of students voted in the general election. In this year’s primary election, 14.05 percent of the student body voted.
— Jared Paben