To be clear Casey I don't have any personal issues with Vishal or dislike him as a person in any way. He was a Welcome Week Rep for my residence in my first year and he was a nice person. I just didn't care much for his platform and wasn't pleased by some of his answers at the debates.

Like some others I would have liked to see a non MSU insider type win the election, as I am displeased with a lot of what I'm reading about the current MSU and Vishal is part of the current bod.

Originally Posted by fullsmash26

Interesting, that's not what you guys were implying during the campaign.

Now that the election is over, I guess things are quickly back to normal.

Would someone at the Sil PLEASE get steps2health invloved with a photoshop section?
I'm thinking we're lacking in the political cartoon/ps section (among others, but thats for another thread).

Just so everyone knows, the pictures are being reviewed by the exec because there have been complaints, that is why they have disappeared for the time being.

The official results are up...looks like it was a Tiwari, Elvikis, Singh race.

http://www.msumcmaster.ca/servicesan...lInfo/main.htm

Singh? Really?

He was awful at the "debates."

Originally Posted by sew12

Singh? Really?

He was awful at the "debates."

Let me posit a little theory here:

Indian person goes to the ballot without knowing anything about the candidates.

Sees name Joy Singh.

Votes Singh.

Hell I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the voters think Joy is a girl. Poor Terry and Hopper, I was really hoping one of them would win.

Originally Posted by kokosas

Just so everyone knows, the pictures are being reviewed by the exec because there have been complaints, that is why they have disappeared for the time being.

I heard they snitchin' on a player man, say it ain't so.

(i hope it was casey lol)

Originally Posted by kokosemara

Let me posit a little theory here:

Indian person goes to the ballot without knowing anything about the candidates.

Sees name Joy Singh.

Votes Singh.

Hell I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the voters think Joy is a girl. Poor Terry and Hopper, I was really hoping one of them would win.

That's not only presumptuous and somewhat racist but just downright stupid.

There was another candidate named Florence Prahbu who is a girl and has an Indian last name. She didn't get nearly as many votes as Joy, how do you explain that?

Isn't it more likely that since Joy is an engineer he may have influence a percentage of the large group of first year engineers to vote for him?

Wow, these elections were very disappointing based on the vote count. Is there a breakdown of the number of votes by each age group?

I call bullshit on joy's numbers.

i bet those were all meant for someone else.

(or he got all 9s)

Originally Posted by nino

Wow, these elections were very disappointing based on the vote count. Is there a breakdown of the number of votes by each age group?

No, because that info (age) isn't asked for on the ballot. So there's no way to track it.

Yes but wasn't there a checklist to ensure that students only voted once? Doesn't that indicate what year each person that has voted is in? I'm just curious...

Originally Posted by sew12

There was another candidate named Florence Prahbu who is a girl and has an Indian last name. She didn't get nearly as many votes as Joy, how do you explain that?

I wasn't proposing that Singh got more votes because people thought he's a girl, just saying that I think most people haven't a clue about who the candidates are.

Originally Posted by sew12

Isn't it more likely that since Joy is an engineer he may have influence a percentage of the large group of first year engineers to vote for him?

Meh, there were plenty of engineering candidates.

Now that I think about it I think the reason why Singh got so many votes was just exposure. No one showed up to the debates and I bet just as few read the platforms, and even the people who read/post on this forum is a small number. Combine that with the campaign team members and their friends, and that's still probably a very small percentage of the student body that engaged in this election.
I say exposure because I recall now that during one my classes, Elvikas(who came in second) and Singh(who came in third) went up in front of the class and said their little talk. They must've done that for days, for dozens of classrooms. Nevermind what they said or how they said it, the students just heard them talking and became aware of them running, and that was more than they could say for the other candidates.