Sally ’12 elected social chair

Sally defeated Chenyu Zheng ’12, 485 votes to 375 votes, and Favoloro defeated Hollimon, 170 to 162.

Stefan Kende and Kevin Mantel will face each other in a run-off for Class of 2013 vice president after garnering 113 and 70 votes, respectively, in a re-vote.

The re-vote was called after incumbent Class of 2013 vice president Gabrielle Cole was disqualified midway through the initial voting period for multiple campaign violations.

USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 said in an e-mail that the results were announced on Saturday, rather than Friday, because of “scheduling challenges to the trustees who were unable to decrypt the tally until very late on Friday night.”

Xiao explained in an e-mail, “Helios requires all trustees to input their decryption keys before the results are revealed. Friday was a busy day for Dean Dunne and me, and not until late Friday night did both of us have the opportunity to decrypt the vote tallies using our secret keys.”

But Yaroshefsky said the delay was “an indication that the new system works better than the old system: The results of the election are protected from any trustee trying to gain access to them singlehandedly.”

After leading by only two votes in the first round of voting, Sally said he continued his campaign efforts before the runoff.

“I increased my campaigning a lot and had a substantial amount of help from Tianyi Peng [’12] and Selene Kim [’12]. I basically saw people who were my friends and told them to vote, and then find five people I didn’t know and tell them to vote too,” he explained.

He said he is “pleased to represent the social needs of the student body.”

“I’ve begun looking at bands for the fall and am excited for next year,” he said. “The Roots were amazing and I plan on keeping Lawnparties at the same level next year.”

In the race for Class of 2012 treasurer, Hollimon received 25 more votes than Favoloro after the first round of voting, but he received eight fewer votes than Favoloro in the second round, in which 76 fewer sophomores voted for class treasurer than did in the first round.

“It was close,” Hollimon said. “It was a smaller turnout than I expected.”

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Favoloro said in an e-mail that he was “pleasantly surprised” by the election results.

“I was hoping that most of the votes for Ellen [Chu ’12] and Laura [Pedersen ’12] would stay anti-incumbent now [that] they were out of the race ... Presumably, that’s what happened.”

Hollimon noted that a similar series of events occurred for the Class of 2012 vice presidential race last year between Nick Pugliese and John Monagle, with Pugliese winning after trailing Monagle in the first round.

Voting for 2013 vice president begins today and will continue through Wednesday.

Mantel said in an e-mail that he does not plan on “doing anything major” to campaign during the revote period.

Kende said in an e-mail that he believes “just simply talking to people one-on-one is the way to convince them ... They can put a face behind the candidate and feel a connection to the process.”

Mantel said that, while he thought lower voter turnout was a possibility, “the voting system is pretty simple, so it’s not really inconvenient.”

But Kende called it “unfortunate” that the race was drawn out so long. “It’s already hard enough to get people the first time,” he explained. “People get tired of hearing about it by the time voting comes around for the third time. They want it to be done simply and quickly.”

Yaroshefsky said he hopes that students will continue voting in the upcoming election.

“I hope voters realize that this vote is just as important as the previous one, because this time someone will be elected based on the results,” he said.

Zheng did not respond to a request for comment.

Editor's Note: USG Elections Manager Tony Xiao ’12 reponded to a request for comment after publication. His responses have been added to the online version of this article.