SGA Voting Updates, Troubleshooting and Trivia

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:54:00 -0400
sga-election

The SGA election runs through Wednesday night at midnight. As of noon Tuesday--the halfway point in the three-day election--1,391 UMBC students had voted. The all-time campus record turnout for an SGA election is 2,448 votes.

To cast your vote, go here: www.umbc.edu/studentvote.

A few students have reported being unable to select choices on the ballot. If you have that problem, it's probably because you're using an outdated web browser. Older versions of Internet Explorer seem to cause the problem most frequently. Try opening a different browser or voting on a different computer.

The results of this election will be announced at 4:00 p.m. Thursday in the student organizations space on The Commons' 2nd floor.

Some election trivia:

2 = number of votes separating the winner and loser of the closest UMBC SGA race in the past 5 years (for Senator)

7 = number of votes separating the winner and loser of the closest race for an Executive Branch position (Treasurer) in the past 5 years

2,368 = last year's total turnout (2nd highest in campus history)

14.5% = the percentage of the undergraduates at College Park who voted in their SGA election last week (as of noon, 13.6% of UMBC's undergraduates had voted in our election)

4 = number of times in the past 4 years UMBC's turnout has exceeded the turnout at College Park and Towson University as a percentage of the undergraduate student body

551 = minimum number of votes needed to win a seat in the SGA Senate last year

580 = minimum number of votes needed to win a seat on the SGA Finance Board last year