For the first time since 2019, Emporia State Associated Student Government (ASG) will be holding in-person polling on campus for their 2023 spring elections. Students running for executive positions – president and vice president – will be required to obtain signatures from students in order to get on the ballot.
“Ultimately students will vote through their email and online. However, campus emails will go out,” Price said. “We’ll have a really big poster out in Union Square showing people how to vote and where, and then we’ll also have polling booths.”
In 2019 and in years prior – before elections were disrupted by COVID – students running for executive positions were required to obtain 15% of the student population’s signatures. This number has now been decreased to 10% of the student population.
Azwad B. Arif, ASG Election Commissioner and freshman computer science major said in a Feb. 9 ASG meeting that the change to 10% was made to adjust to the university’s lower population than in past years.
“With enrollment down, that’s kind of infeasible with how many students are currently on campus and we want to encourage students to, at all possible, run,” said Hailey Kisner, ASG vice president and senior psychology major.
ASG elections will occur March 7-9, beginning 8 a.m. on March 7 and closing at 5 p.m. on March 9. Polling booths will be located in Visser Hall, the Memorial Union and Cremer Hall. Information on polling through Hornet Central will also be sent to students’ emails, according to Price.
