MSU Presidential Election 2009 Polls Closed
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MSU Presidential Election 2009 Polls Closed
The polls for the MSU Presidential election are officially closed. Ballot counting begins at 7pm tonight. We will be updating you on who the 2009-2010 MSU President is as soon as the information is passed on to us.
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02-05-2009 at 04:16 PM
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02-05-2009 at 04:46 PM
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Isn't the fines meeting at 7? The ballots don't get counted after that right?
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02-05-2009 at 04:59 PM
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Fines meeting is first, then ballot counting. I'm not sure when the fines meeting starts though..
And the fines meeting could take awhile...
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02-05-2009 at 05:42 PM
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I can't wait for the results. I wonder how many students voted...I tried convincing a lot of first years to vote but a lot of them did not know who to vote for.
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02-05-2009 at 05:48 PM
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The fines meeting shouldn't be too long, as there has already been two. (They changed the format this year, so there are three meetings over several days rather than one meeting on the last day before ballot counts).
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02-05-2009 at 05:55 PM
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You cannot possibly understand how ecstatic and pumped I am about this. 
I like how the candidates tried to sway all the first year engineers by pretending to relate to them, regardless of the fact that some of the candidates weren't even in engineering, lol. |
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02-05-2009 at 06:23 PM
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fines meeting started about 20 minutes ago. I don't expect them to start counting ballots until 9pm.
rough numbers of voter turn-out: 2500 (according to polling clerks/EC members)
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02-05-2009 at 06:25 PM
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Were the candidates allowed to be talking up the students today?
Because I saw a lot of that today ..
I thought campaigning was supposed to be over on Wednesday?
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02-05-2009 at 06:54 PM
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they're just not supposed to hang around the polling stations. They have to be a certain distance away. They can still campaign and try to get people to vote for them.
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02-05-2009 at 07:34 PM
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God I hope more than 2500 people came out...I mean that is only roughly 13%-14% of the undergraduate population...
And Nino, I talked to a couple polling clerks and apparently the first year numbers were the strongest.
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02-05-2009 at 08:20 PM
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they had 7 uncreative candidates to choose from. It looked like the same lames that ran for office at my highschool, and probably theirs too. and one vague joke.
non-voting supports the cause. congrats to anyone that didn't vote.
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02-05-2009 at 08:24 PM
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I thought there were 9?
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Originally Posted by steps2health
they had 7 uncreative candidates to choose from. It looked like the same lames that ran for office at my highschool, and probably theirs too. and one vague joke.
non-voting supports the cause. congrats to anyone that didn't vote.
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Not voting is just lazy.
If you want to show your displeasure with all of the candidates or you feel you weren't properly educated on the issues you should talk 2 minutes to go to your polling station and check the abstain box.
Showing that you abstain is better than just not showing up. Not showing up says that you don't really give a damn, not that you oppose the system or dislike the candidates.
As for the ballot counting let's all hope it goes better than last year.
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02-05-2009 at 08:31 PM
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why institutionalize your protest by participating in the system that you oppose?
" Not showing up says that you don't really give a damn, not that you oppose the system or dislike the candidates."
you say that like it's a bad thing?
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