UPEISU General Election

UPEI Student Union held their election this week. There were four Presidential candidate, five Executive Vice President cadidates and three candidates running for the Vice President Activies position.

There was a significant voting turn out of 50% compared to last year's 30% voting rate.
The President elect is Timothy Cullen who captured 500 votes.
The Executive VP is Jarrod "J-Rod" Faria, who also happens to be the DJ at the 'Wave' the campus pub and an international student from Trinidad. Also I have known him very well and he is a good friend.
The VP of Activities, Shawn Younis who happens to also be a good friend of mine clenched the position by getting 813 votes. Moreover, he is the current VP of Activies and decided to run again and he did get re-elected. Shawn is also well known among most of the students and faculty, here.

Overall, it was a great election. Candidates did their best to get votes and to reach out to students effectively. One of the effective initiative was that candidates went into classrooms and explained to students what their platform is all about and how it will affect them in the upcoming school year.

Another great initiative that Shawn Younis (VP of Activities) took was to get students say "Vote Younis" while recording and place it on facebook to promote his campaign.

I find it very good how we as students can go online, at our student login and vote for our candidate and policy amendments. This is not at COB and I think COB need to start this initiative, because students sometimes might not want to come at school to vote, but can just sit at home on their computer and vote. I also think it is why COB receive low percentages of votes from students. Hopefully they will soon progress and do this as well.

Well, the winning candidates are celebrating this weekend by putting on big party bashments for their victorious win. I hope to be apart of some as well.