Show How Did Your Vote Count In InThe InThe InThe The Recent Elections by Terry A Accordino One out of every six students on campus voted this year but do the results reflect the voice of the students Mike Atkinson won 55 percent of the votes cast for the office of President but those votes represented only 9 percent of all enrolled students This means that less than 1 lout out of 10 students on campus actually voted for Mike Apparently some students chose not to vote for all of the offices on their ballots because no single office up for election received votes from all 1243 ballots In national general elections about 50 percent of the voting population of the United States turns out to vote In comparison with the University of Utah where 14 percent of the students turned out to vote last year we had only 13 percent This year they fell to toa toa toa a lowly 13 percent of their we can boast a 17 percent turnout an increase of 4 percent over last year Our statistics do show an improvement improvement improvement improve improve- ment in student voter turnout here at but is it good enough A Statistical Look At The 1987 Student Election Votes Voles Of Total Office Elected Votes Cast CISI 0 Votes Voles For Office Pres Mike Atkinson 1223 55 0 9 90 0 Executive VP Vance Sperry 1217 54 9 Financial VP Brent Fillmore 1186 69 11 Executive Secretary Debbie Galloway 1214 60 10 Publications VP Wes Pack 1211 53 9 Activities VP Melinda Larsen 1217 55 9 Student Member Corl coni Ferguson 1147 53 8 of Senate Totals 1243 1000 0 17 0 |