Student Life

February 6th, 2008

Election Day

By Neil Patel - Student Union on February 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Election day  for Washington University students overall seemed to have gone smoothly. This year we had a polling station on the South 40 which meant students had nearly instant access to vote if they were registered in Missouri. I think this is a great step by the University to promote voting on campus. Another great step would be to allow political speakers access to our campus, but more on that in a later post. I did get a call about a group of students who were unable to vote due to city / county issues and I will be following up with that. Student Union has been using its listserv to send out voting announcements to the student body. In addition, with funding from our Campus Enrichment Fund, we paid about $1200 for voter shuttles so that students could get rides to polling places off campus. Thanks to the help of SU Senator Jordan Aibel and Matt Adler, many students experienced an easier voting process.Let us know if you had any voting issues yesterday. I think the University and students made a huge effort to make sure students had accurate information so that their votes would count. Let’s keep it up for the general election.

Last 5 posts by Neil Patel - Student Union

• Treasury Meeting - Tons of money on the table - February 11th, 2008
• Treasury last night - January 30th, 2008
• Student Union Blog - January 16th, 2008

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