2010 ASUC ELECTIONS
APRIL 6-8
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS VOTERS!
Students can now vote at any of the On-Campus Polling Locations listed
below at specified times or ONLINE FROM ANY COMPUTER IN THE WORLD
(except those connected to the internet through AirBears, in the MLK
Student Union, Anthony Hall or Eshleman Hall) AT ANY TIME DURING THE
ELECTIONS PERIOD!
THAT'S RIGHT, FROM 9AM PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (PDT) ON TUESDAY APRIL 6TH
TO 11:59PM PDT ON THURDSAY APRIL 8TH, YOU CAN CAST YOUR VOTE FROM MOST
ANY COMPUTER BY VISITING HTTP://ELECTION.ASUC.ORG !!!
VOICE YOUR OPINION IN THE ASUC ELECTIONS FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR BED,
YOUR FRIENDS BED, YOUR FAVORITE MICROCOMPUTING FACILITY, CAFE STRADA,
PERU.
Voting Locations and Times
The ASUC Elections voting period occurs on the following three days:
* Tuesday, April 6
* Wednesday, April 7
* Thursday, April 8
VOTE ONLINE!
Voting online is available during the following times at
http://election.asuc.org:
# 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on Tuesday April 6th to 11:59pm
PDT on Thursday April 8th
(Votes MUST be submitted online by 11:59pm)
Voting online is not allowed from the following connections and
locations:
# Airbears
# ASUC- and Graduate Assembly-controlled properties: Anthony Hall,
Eshleman Hall, and the MLK Student Union
OR, VOTE AT POLLING STATIONS!
Voting from polling stations is available at the following times and
locations:
(Students may vote from polling stations as long as they are IN LINE by
the time the station closes)
* Campus Polls
Open 9:00am to 4:10pm
1. Upper Sproul Plaza
2. Dwinelle Plaza
3. Kroeber Hall, East Entrance
4. Evans Hall, East Entrance
5. Genetics and Plant Biology Building, South Plaza
* Residence Hall Polls
Open 5:00PM to 9:00PM
1. Crossroads Dining Facility
* Library Polls (Via AirBears)
1. Doe Library
2. Moffitt Library
3. Main Stacks
Eligibility
All registered UC Berkeley students, including graduate students,
are eligible to vote.
Voters may cast only one ballot. Voters will receive discount
coupons for the Cal Student Store.
Voter Confidentiality & Anonymity
Your CalNet ID is used for authentication and authorization to the
system. Your final ballot is stored anonymously. Identification
information is used expressly for the purpose of verifying that you are a
registered UCB student and for preventing multiple ballots from an
individual voter.
Please note: As a voter, you have specific rights of
confidentiality. No campaigning is allowed within 20 feet of the
computer from which you are voting online or within 100 feet of polling
stations.
Ballot
There are 6 Offices on the ballot this year:
Executive Offices (1 position available per office)
o President
o Executive Vice President
o External Affairs Vice President
o Academic Affairs Vice President
o Student Advocate
Senate Office (20 positions available)
Preferential Proportional Representation
The ASUC Elections implements the Preferential Proportional
Representation system, also known as the Single Transferable Vote
system. Unlike other systems where voters may only vote for one
candidate, in this type of election, you may vote for multiple
candidates, ranking your chosen candidates in order of preference. A 1
is marked next to the top choice candidate, a 2 to the next, and so
forth. For the Executive Office positions, you may vote for up to the
number of candidates running for that office. For the Senate, you may
vote for up to 20 candidates only. You do NOT have to vote for, or rank,
every candidate, nor are you required to vote for each
office/proposition.
Your first preference vote will receive a value of one. The quota
for election is the smallest number of votes necessary to elect the
required number of candidates (i.e. one for the executive offices, and
20 for the senate seats). This is calculated by using the equation
(N/(S+1))+1 where N is the number of valid first preference votes and S
is the total number of seats needed to be filled in the election.
Fractional votes are dropped.
A candidate is elected if all votes have been transferred and s/he
has accrued at least a quota of votes. If the voter's preference is for
a candidate who thus receives more than the quota of votes required for
election, the surplus value of his/her vote shall be transferred to
his/ her next eligible preference, if applicable. If a voter's
preference for a candidate is for a candidate eliminated or already
elected, the current value of the vote will be transferred to the
voter's next eligible preference.
Votes are tallied in rounds. The first preferences of all voters
are tallied first. If no candidate achieves the quota in this round,
each candidate with the least vote-total is eliminated and each voter's
vote (which was cast for these eliminated candidates) remains at its
present value and is transferred to the voter's next preference. If the
voter has not listed any additional preference or was unable to do so,
his/her ballot is exhausted. This process continues, and further
tabulation rounds are counted, until a candidate reaches quota for an
executive office, or 20 candidates reach quota for senate office.
For ballot propositions, you have the option of voting Yes, No, and Abstain. Only "Yes" and "No" votes are counted. "Abstain" is
the equivalent of not voting on the proposition.
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