Full results: Spring 2017 Student Government Election

President/ Vice President

• Smith Meyers/ Mario Agosto, Impact Party, 6,203 votes, 94.07 percent

Treasurer

• Revel Lubin, Impact Party, 6,267 votes, 95.68 percent

Senators

Accounting

• Jonathan Nickas, Impact Party, 113 votes, 95.76 percent

Agriculture and Life Sciences

• Chase Brannan, Impact Party, 391 votes, 36.14 percent  

• Audra Weeks, Impact Party, 339 votes, 31.33 percent  

• Herin Warner, Impact Party, 328 votes, 30.31 percent  

Architecture

• Raymond Vista, Impact Party, 41 votes, 100 percent

Arts

• Carina Krehl, Impact Party, 38 votes, 95 percent

Building Construction

• Tyler Brewer, Impact Party, 52 votes, 98.11 percent

Business Administration

• Ian Green, Impact Party, 661 votes, 31.67 percent

• Nick Adams, Impact Party, 634 votes, 30.38 percent

• Jacob Martinez, Impact Party, 613 votes, 29.37 percent

Dentistry

• Galia Fakhri-Medrano, write-in, 2 votes, 50 percent

Education

• Lauren Barnard, Impact Party, 57 votes, 98.28 percent

Engineering

• Alexander Esperanza, Impact Party, 429 votes, 22.02 percent

• Brady Walters, Impact Party, 420 votes, 21.56 percent

• Paulo Bazan, Impact Party, 413 votes, 21.2 percent

• Jack Wananmaker, Impact Party, 411 votes, 21.1 percent

Freshman

• Maddie Cohen, Impact Party, 489 votes, 39.28 percent

• Noah Harden, Impact Party, 381 votes, 30.6 percent

• Andrea Rangel, Impact Party, 339 votes, 27.23 percent

Graduate

• Sunal Mittal, Impact Party, 148 votes, 12.73 percent

• Pulkit Kumar Dhir, Independent, 118 votes, 10.15 percent

• Yue Rong, Impact Party, 117 votes, 10.06 percent

• Lucas Luo, Impact Party, 115 votes, 9.89 percent

• Yong Shen, Impact Party, 112 votes, 9.63 percent

• Clay Hurdle, Impact Party, 95 votes, 8.17 percent

• Rosario “Thomas” Argento, Impact Party, 91 votes, 7.82 percent

• Justin Clonts, Impact Party, 87 votes, 7.48 percent

• Brent Ziegler, Impact Party, 86 votes, 7.39 percent

• Alex Nelson, Impact Party, 85 votes, 7.31 percent

Health and Human Performance

• Elizabeth Wilson, Impact Party, 276 votes, 98.57 percent

Journalism

• Marcella Astudillo, Impact Party, 324 votes, 46.15 percent

• Sadie Cannon, Impact Party, 286 votes, 40.74 percent

Law

• Allie Watson, Impact Party, 40 votes, 93.02 votes

Liberal Arts and Sciences Senator

• Janae Moodie, Impact Party, 796 votes, 14.09 percent

• Leah Gorshein, Impact Party, 793 votes, 14.04 percent

• Izzy Muncan, Impact Party, 784 votes, 13.88 percent

• Steven Baldizon, Impact Party, 775 votes, 13.72 percent

• Marie Nanney, Impact Party, 758 votes, 13.42 percent

• Stefan Sanguyo, Impact Party, 746 votes, 13.21 percent

• Chase Werther, Independent, 345 votes, 6.11 percent

• Ivan Grela, Progress Party, 244 votes, 4.32 percent

• Stephen Keith, Progress Party, 238 votes, 4.21 percent

Medicine

• Michael Schmoll, Impact Party, 18 votes, 100 percent

Nursing

• Sarah Lazarus, Impact Party, 105 votes, 99.06 percent

Pharmacy

• Dean Hasan, Impact Party, 25 votes, 100 percent

Public Health and Health Professions

• Molly Cuthbertson, Impact Party, 195 votes, 98.98 percent

Sophomore

• Graham Boone, Impact Party, 923 votes, 15.52 percent

• Haven Garcia, Impact Party, 890 votes, 14.96 percent

• Libby Shaw, Impact Party, 882 votes, 14.83 percent

• Sean Lanoue, Impact Party, 811 votes, 13.63 percent

• Avi Snyder, Impact Party, 782 votes, 13.15 percent

• Matthew Toplak, Impact Party, 779 votes, 13.1 percent

Amendments

 

• Amendment One: “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to reflect the University of Florida’s anti-discrimination policy and read in part, Article 1, Section 4, ‘Student Government and any organization that receives funds shall be in full compliance with all federal and state nondiscrimination and equal opportunity laws, orders, and regulations and shall adhere to University of Florida nondiscrimination policies?’”

• • Yes, 2,982 votes, 43.41 percent

  • No, 728 votes, 10.6 percent

  • Abstained, 3,159 votes, 45.99 percent

 

• Amendment Two: “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to decrease the maximum composition of the fall or spring class of Student Senate from sixty members to fifty members and change the relevant parts of Article III Section 2 to read: ‘FALL CLASS. -- Forty to fifty members elected in the fall general election as apportioned by law from on-campus areas as defined by law. SPRING CLASS. -- Forty to fifty members elected in the spring general election from the colleges and independent schools recognized by the student senate as defined by law?’”

• • Yes, 1,044 votes, 15.2 percent

  • No, 1,561 votes, 22.73 percent

  • Abstained, 4,264 votes, 62.08 percent

 

• Amendment Three: “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to allow summer replacement Senators to be appointed at the last meeting of the Spring semester and amend Article III, Section 4 to read in part, “The Student Senate during the summer term shall have the same authority as it does during the fall and spring terms. A Student Senator who will not attend the summer academic term, or any portion of the term may nominate a Summer Replacement Senator, subject to confirmation by the Student Senate on the last meeting of spring term. The summer replacement senator shall serve only during the summer academic term, or designated portion of the term. The student senator resumes office upon return to the university?”

• • Yes, 1,957 votes, 28.49 percent

  • No, 824 votes, 12 percent

  • Abstained, 4,088 votes, 59.51 percent

 

• Amendment Four: “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to reflect current University of Florida operating procedures and strike Article III, Section 6(i), ‘contract on behalf of the Student Body, provided the contract is executed as a Student Body law,’ from the powers of the Legislative Branch?”

• • Yes, 1,347 votes, 19.61 percent

  • No, 690 votes, 10.05 percent

  • Abstained, 4,832 votes, 70.35 percent

 

• Amendment Five, “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to set executive department terms to serve concurrently with the elected Student Body Executive Officers and read in part: ‘Article IV, Section 5: Executive departments may be established by Student Body law, with the head of each departments may be established by Student Body law, with the head of each department to be appointed by the Student Body President and confirmed with at least a concurrence of a majority of the Student Senate. Officers of the executive departments shall be responsible to the Student Body President for the execution of their duties and shall be subject to removal by the Student Body President. The terms of the heads of the executive departments shall expire concurrently with the expiration of the regular terms of the elected executive officials. The heads of the executive departments may appoint subordinate aides or other officials not provided for by Student Body law, if deemed necessary?’”

• • Yes, 1,396 votes, 20.32 percent

  • No, 711 votes, 10.35 percent

  • Abstained, 4,762 votes, 69.33 percent

 

• Amendment 6, “Should the Student Body Constitution Article VI be updated and amended as follows, “Section 2: The fall general election shall occur on the Tuesday of the sixth week of the fall term,” “Section 3: The spring general election shall occur on the Tuesday of the sixth week of the spring term,” and “Section 9: The Executive Branch shall guarantee verified and secured real-time online remote voting on election day in Student Government elections to all members of the electorate?”

• • Yes, 1,883 votes, 27.41 percent

  • No, 794 votes, 11.56 percent

  • Abstained, 4,192 votes, 61.03 percent

 

• Amendment 7, “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated within Article VIII Section 2 to change submission of proposals by initiative to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from the Honor Court Chancellor and read in part: ‘Students may propose amendments to the constitution upon a submission of a petition to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court joined by ten percent of the electorate not later than twenty-eight days before the ratification election?’”

• • Yes, 1,620 votes, 23.58 percent

  • No, 588 votes, 8.56 percent

  • Abstained, 4,661 votes, 67.86 percent

 

• Amendment 8, “Should the Student Body Constitution Article VIII Section 2 be updated to add the following clause: ‘The Elections Commission shall have the authority to determine if the petition has an accurate summary, and if it determines it is not, to modify the summary so as to be accurate, and after making such determination shall in all forward the petition to the Supervisor of Elections for inclusion on the ballot. Such determinations shall be subject to the Review of the Supreme Court?’”

• • Yes, 1,179 votes, 17.16 percent

  • No, 794 votes, 11.56 percent

  • Abstained, 4,896 votes, 71.28 percent

• Amendment 9, “Should the Student Body Constitution be updated and amended to comply with the Florida Board of Governors Resolution 08-23 that would create the Student Honor Code as an Executive Department, thus striking any specific reference to ‘Student Honor Court’ or ‘Student Honor Court Bar Association’ from the Student Body Constitution?’”

• • Yes, 1,224 votes, 17.82 percent

  • No, 766 votes, 11.15 percent

  • Abstained, 4,879 votes, 71.03 percent

 

• Amendment 10, “Should the Student Body Constitution Article VIII Section 2 be updated to add the following clause allowing students to propose amendments to the constitution: ‘...joined by five percent of the electorate not later than twenty-eight days before the ratification election.’?”

• • Yes, 1,319 votes, 19.2 percent

  • No, 609 votes, 8.87 percent

  • Abstained, 4,941 votes, 71.93 percent

 

• Amendment 11, “Should the Student Body Constitution Article III Section 4 be amended to change the method in selecting summer replacement senators to the following: ‘The Student Senate during the summer term shall have the same authority it does during the fall and spring terms. A Student Senator who will not attend the summer academic term, or any portion of the term may vacate their seat for summer. The vacant seat will then be decided by the Replacement and Agenda Committee and be subject to confirmation by the Student Senate. The summer replacement senator shall serve only during the summer academic term, or designated portion of the term. The Student Senate resumes office upon return to the university.’”

• • Yes, 1,290 votes, 18.78 percent

  • No, 819 votes, 11.92 percent

  • Abstained, 4,760 votes, 69.3 percent

Referendum 1: A Nighttime Safety fee has been proposed to create and expand nighttime safety services here at the University of Florida. This fee would improve safety services on campus, by allowing for the reimplementation of the safe walk program and increasing research on alternative security initiatives. Voting YES indicates the wish to fund an increase in safety research in safety research and initiatives. Voting NO indicates the wish to keep safety practices as they are. Shall a new student fee be created to fund the expansion of nighttime safety services at the University of Florida?

• Yes, 1,900 votes, 27.66 percent

• No, 1794 votes, 26.12 percent

• Abstained, 3,175 votes, 46.22 percent

 

Referendum 2: Currently student organizations can reserve areas of the football stadium to sit together during home football games. The block seating process is only available to groups of 25 or more student season ticket holders interested in sitting together at each home game. Do you support the athletic department’s continued use of student organization block seating at football games?

• Yes, 3,977 votes, 57.9 percent

• No, 361 votes, 5.26 percent

• Abstained, 2,531 votes, 36.85 percent