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it is almost time
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Mar 20th, 2008 at 05:30pm |
About half an hour to go until voting closes; 2 hours after that, the results. Looks like voter turnout is going to be around 16%.
I'll try to get the results up here as soon as they are officially published by the CRO.
Just to respond more visibly to a question a commenter asked: no, I can't see the results. This is so people don't spend their time trying to parse my words trying to figure out if I am implying something about the results. I know nothing. Since I know nothing, I cannot be accused of dropping hints. :)
(History lesson: During one of the first years we ran online elections, the elections committee had real-time access to results. They intended to keep them confidential, but worked leaked out, spread fast, and accusations were levied that this information interfered with the results. Though no policy was passed regarding this, the decision was made that no one would see the results until voting closed, and that has been the convention ever since.)
Due to my role with the elections comittee, I can see the results as soon as the polls close. Due to the separation between my coverage here and that role, I will only publish the results that show up on the DSU website.
Comments:
Anonymous Coward says:
[Mar 20th @ 06:37pm]
holy shoot im excited
Chris "Over the DSU" Ide says:
[Mar 20th @ 07:51pm]
That makes one of us.
Chris "Pretends To Be Over the DSU" Ide says:
[Mar 20th @ 07:54pm]
of course, I'm only half kidding. If I wasn't interested I probably wouldn't spend countless minutes reading Mike's blog.
Best of luck to all the candidates.
Actually, best of luck to most of the candidates.
Wait now, best of luck to only a select few of the candidates.
God speed.
Anonymous Coward says:
[Mar 20th @ 08:22pm]
I am refreshing the site from my blackberry at a political communications lecture... This is life after student politics, people...
Anonymous Coward says:
[Mar 20th @ 08:25pm]
I am not 'anonymous coward', I am Chris. Damn pretentious blackberry machine.
incognito fraidy cat says:
[Mar 20th @ 09:33pm]
Atleast we know he's refreshing...
Clock watcher... says:
[Mar 20th @ 09:34pm]
...come on, come on...Where are these results? This year has been a bit disappointing...J.Bond barely updated her Blog, only one referendum question, no threats of violence, no one freaking out and running out of Presidential debates...I thought this was the age of info-tainment...?
Anonymous Coward says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:00pm]
Check out election results at dalgazette.ca under News Update. More detailed results coming soon.
sad about elected president... says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:36pm]
From Gazette:
President: Courtney Larkin
Vice President (Internal): Daniel Boyle
Vice President (Education): Mark Coffin (yes/no vote)
Vice President (Student Life): Kris Osmond
Senate Representatives:
Kaylyn Fraser
Eric Snow
Jonathan Hughes
Grad Rep: Yannick Tremblay (yes/no vote)
Halifax Student Alliance Levy- $2 (annually per full-time student): Yes
Voter Turnout: 15.9 per cent (2347 votes)
REALLY? says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:40pm]
Wow. What a painfully boring executive.
hum.. says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:44pm]
I know the results are unofficial... but it is a tad shocking that Hughes got the senate position. It will be interesting to see how close it was between candidates.
That Sure Was Close says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:49pm]
3 votes between Christofi and Hughes. Sucks to be Christofi.
hmmm... says:
[Mar 20th @ 11:51pm]
any more interesting details??
That Sure Was Close says:
[Mar 21st @ 12:05am]
Larkin and Gault were also ridiculously close. 39/41 on the first ballot, and the gap got even tighter after that.
Boyle and Osmond both won by fair clear margins. Coffin and Tremblay obviously won by huge margins. The referendum passed by a surprisingly large amount, compared to last year's referendums.
Chris M says:
[Mar 21st @ 02:57pm]
My apologies.
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