ASUO Executive candidates Ashley Rees and Jael Anker-Lagos will square off against candidates Adam Walsh and Kyla Coy in this week’s general election, according to primary election results released late Sunday.
Rees and Anker-Lagos, with 907 votes, garnered more than twice the number of votes Walsh’s ticket received. Walsh and Coy, with 445 votes, beat out third-place challengers Jacob Daniels and Adi Cargni by just 22 votes.
No one from Rees’ ticket could be reached for comment.
Walsh said he was excited by the results.
“It’s cool,” he said. “I’m definitely very
excited to be on to the next round. Hopefully we’ll be able to maintain the support that
we had for the primaries on into the general election.”
“Twenty-five votes to lose by is a small margin to lose by,” Daniels said. “I guess it’s better than losing by more.”
He added that he will support Walsh in the general election.
“He’s an outsider. He has the know-how,” Daniels said. “He’s an intelligent guy, and he’s going to fix the problems that are currently present.”
Candidates who received more than 50 percent of the vote automatically won their seats.
All members of the 10-candidate Student Action Committee slate, which aims to increase minority representation in student government, won their seats, with six winning a majority of the vote in their race and four running completely unopposed.
Ballot Measure 21, designed to show students’ interest in powering the EMU with wind energy and funding other sustainability projects, passed 1,150-277.
Voter turnout in the primary election was similar to last year’s, with 2,960 students, or about 15.1 percent of the student body, participating. Last year, 14.1 percent participated.
Results from the election were released at about 11:45 p.m. Sunday night after grievances and a Constitution Court injunction delayed the process for more than two days.
The primary election will run Wednesday through Friday at 5 p.m.
The rest of the results are as
follows:
ASUO President
Vice President
1. Ashley Rees/ Jael Anker-Lagos (907 votes); 2. Adam Walsh/Kyla Coy (445); 3. Jacob Daniels/Adi Cargni (423); 4. Nick Hudson/Allison Sprouse (265); 5. Evan Geier/ David Goward (250); 6. Anthony Caruso/Robbie McEachern (171);
7. Peter Flier/Christopher Haak (75)
ASUO Programs
Finance Senators
Seat 1, one-year term
Kristin Kato, outright winner (873 votes); Miles Rost (538)
Seat 3, two-year term
Jared Axelrod, outright winner (821 votes); Alex Bjorvik (328); Silas Snider (240)
At-Large, one-year term
Erica Anderson (1,324 votes)
EMU Board
Finance Senators
Seat 4, one-year term
Reinier Heyden (763 votes); Billy Hatch (517)
Seat 6, two-year term
Sara Hamilton, outright winner (868 votes); Barett Volkmann (535)
At-Large, two-year term (midterm)
Drew Kincaid, outright winner (890 votes); Evan Lally (400)
At-Large, two-year term
Slade Leeson, outright winner (811); Chess Patricolo (697)
Athletic Department
Finance Senators
Seat 7, one-year term
Natalie Kinsey, outright winner (738 votes); Toby Piering (449)
Seat 8, two-year term (midterm)
Kyle McKenzie, outright winner (1,077 votes)
Seat 9, two-year term
Spencer Crum, outright winner (1,166 votes)
Academic Senators
Seat 10, Journalism/Education two-year term (midterm)
Rachel Lee, outright winner (200 votes)
Seat 11, Undeclared
Tyrel Love (92 votes); Justin Wheeler (86)
Seat 12, Allied Arts
Architecture/Interdisciplinary
Amy DuFour, outright winner (63 votes)
Seat 13, Business
Monica Irvin, outright winner (106 votes); Pat Wurtz (53)
Seat 14, Social Science
Dallas Brown, outright winner (280 votes)
Seat 15, Social Science
Mike Filippelli, outright winner (322 votes)
Seat 16, Science
Jessica Nair, outright winner (117 votes); Brian Cappy (54)
Seat 17, Graduate/Law
Write-in: Rob Craig, outright winner (36 votes)
Seat, 18 Graduate/Law
Rahmat Rahmat, outright winner (34 votes)
ASPAC
One, two-year term
Jontae Grace (724 votes); Tyler Bushnell (690 votes)
One, two-year term (midterm)
Andrea Nowack, outright winner (1,259 votes)

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