Read the full story from April 16 in The Daily Northwestern. Excerpts:
The long and at times heated campaign between Associated Student Government presidential candidates Mike McGee and Bill Pulte just got a two-day extension.
The ASG presidential race will go to a runoff – Pulte, a Medill junior, received 48.6 percent of the student vote and McGee, a Communication junior, received 47.9 percent of the student vote – with only a 33-vote difference between the two. Neither garnered a majority.
Weinberg junior and presidential candidate Luke Adams received 94 votes, or 2.1 percent of the vote. The runoff will be held Friday with no write-in candidates and no “no confidence” option.
Paul David Shrader, ASG’s election commissioner, said the hours for voting on Friday will be released around noon Thursday.
The election drew a record-setting turnout – 4,455 votes were cast – and 4,421 counted – compared to about 3,200 last year, Shrader said.
An afternoon technical issue might have thrown the contest off course.
ASG’s voting Web site, asg.northwestern.edu/elections, malfunctioned at around 4:30 p.m. and was down until 6:30 p.m., Shrader said. The voting deadline was extended from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Shrader, a Weinberg senior, estimated that between 500 and 700 students voted after the problem with the Web site was resolved.
– Alexandra Finkel and Andrew Scoggin
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