The Class of 2007 officer elections will be determined in runoffs for each position, the USG announced last night.
In a race marked by a large number of candidates and high voter turnout, no candidate secured a majority of votes. As a result, runoffs between the two candidates with the highest number of votes for each position will take place all day Friday, said Jacqui Perlman '05, USG vice president and senior elections manager.
Jeremy Johnson '07 and P.G. Sittenfeld '07 will vie for the position of president after having claimed the most votes in the nine-candidate field. Johnson garnered 178 votes, while 176 students chose Sittenfeld.
Sittenfeld said, if elected, he hopes to create a greater sense of community within the class.
"The real reason I'm doing this is because I really like meeting new people, and I have a lot of energy to do things like this," he said.
Johnson could not be reached last night.
Matthew Feinstein '07 and Chris Willis '07 will compete for the vice presidency.
Feinstein said that, as vice president, he would focus on expanding the programming on Friday night.
"On Saturday, there are 20 different things going on," he said. "But, on Friday, there's really not much you can end up doing."
Willis said he wants to establish an online means of communication between representatives and students. He said he believed his campaign website was one of his selling points.
In the runoff for the position of secretary, Jesse Cronan '07 and Elle Kennedy '07 will run against each other. Allison Wood '07 and Jean Yin '07 will compete for the position of treasurer, and Christine Kan '07 and Alicia Bonilla '07 will vie for the social chair position.
Kan earned 277 votes, the highest number in any race.
Perlman noted the unusually high voter turnout.
"In the election, voter turnout was tremendous," Perlman said. "This was the highest number of voters in institutional memory."
The average voter turnout in class elections is 55 to 60 percent, but nearly 70 percent of the 1,171 members of the class of 2007 voted in this election, Perlman said.
She added that it was very difficult to determine a majority due to the high number of candidates. She said the USG was not surprised that there will be runoffs.
The next round of voting will begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning and will end at 11:59 p.m. Friday night.
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