Incumbents
vie for executive positions
By Joseph Serna
Online Forty-Niner
Assistant City Editor
The election results are in and the two top spots in Associated Students Inc.
are still up for grabs.
Both incumbents, President Jamie Pollock and Vice President Hironao Okahana will
be on the ballot again Tuesday and Wednesday, trying to hold their spots over
Sen. Shefali Mistry, College of the Arts, and Sen. Juan Carlos Mariano, College
of Business, respectively.
Run-off elections take place when no candidate receives a simple majority of
the electorate, which is 50 percent plus one.
Pollock came close, getting 1,005 votes, or 49.2 percent. Mistry received 708
votes, or 34.7 percent.
Okahana had a slightly larger margin over Mariano, with 973 votes or 48.8 percent
of the vote, while Mariano received 638 votes, or 32 percent.
The other incumbent executive officer up for election was Treasurer Zaira Tinoco,
but she had no challenger and was voted in with 98 percent of the electorate.
This will be the last time ASI has run-off elections because just over 62 percent
of the student body voted in favor of having instant run-off elections, which
determine the winner through a ranking of candidates on the ballot.
As for ASI’s budget woes, they will have to find other means because 61.1
percent of students voted against a fee increase of any kind for the corporation.
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