Welcome to The Hatchet’s live-blogging for the general elections. We will be updating through the night as the results come in. Stay tuned!
9:16 p.m. Joint Elections Committee starts the meeting and begins vote tabulation.
9:20 p.m. JEC chair Ben Balter begins counting the one paper ballot.
10:03 p.m. The JEC is still sorting and tabulating data. They first have to combine online voting (from the my.gwu.edu and law.gwu.edu portals), and then factor in the write-in votes, as necessary. Write-in votes will be read out loud once they reach that point. The JEC is required by the charter to announce all results together, even though some races might be known by members of the JEC before others.
10:38 p.m. The JEC has announced that they are 10-15 minutes away from announcing the results. They are counting the write-in candidates, and they will not be read out loud (per the charter — they had considered taking it a step further at one point).
11:09 p.m. We’re still waiting for results. The JEC is still up front staring at computer screens.
11:11 p.m. We’ve been told that the JEC is validating the write-in votes, to determine voter intent.
11:16 p.m. Tim Miller was just seen throwing a football across the ballroom with SA executive vice president Brand Kroeger.
11:17 p.m. EVP candidate Kyle Boyer throws the football to Kroeger, who returns the football to Chris Rotella. Rotalla then hits an innocent bystander. “Stop throwing the football,” Miller said over the microphone. (You’ll note that he started it a few moments ago.)
11:23 p.m. Because someone asked in a comment: There are a lot of write-in votes to be tallied, ranging from jokes to legitimate votes. Voter intent for every vote must be established — for example, the JEC would allow for misspellings of candidate names provided it can establish intent. (Thus, Oyiborhoro’s Facebook video on how to spell his name may not have been necessary.)
11:28 p.m. Tim Miller is calling EVP Kroeger, Program Board chair Jay Kaplan, and a MCGB representative to the front.
11:31 p.m. This live-blog might seem like watching an ice cube melt in the freezer. Obviously there’s not a lot going on, and we can only offer so much anecdotal commentary. Last year, with the read-out of every ballot, there was a lot more to go on.
11:32 p.m. Presidential candidate Tarek Al-Hariri is asking about hanging chads. We sense a court case.
11:33 p.m. THE RESULTS ARE VERY CLOSE. They’re huddling.
11:36 p.m. They’re still huddling.
11:39 p.m. See above.
11:42 p.m. “Ben Balter is a sex God” did not win, according to the chair. He’s going over the rules, and here are the results…
4390 voter turnout
Senate seats first. A lot of low votes and four-way ties. (And 13-way ties.) We’re getting to the big ones…
ESIA-U - Patrick Hanley, Louis Laverone, Ernesto Apreza
SoB – U – 553 votes: Daniel Preiss
CCAS – U, 6521 votes (almost the whole college): Julie Bindelglass, Michael Komo, Chris Pappas, Chris Borchert, Lee Barkalow, Logan Dobson
Undergraduate At Large: Nick Polk, Rob Lockwood (write-in)
Program Board vice chair: Elissa Davis
Program Board chair: Tiffany Meehan
EVP and presidential results are any moment.
KYLE BOYER WINS EVP WITH 53% OF VOTE
RUN OFF FOR PRESIDENT BETWEEN: 37.2% VISHAL ASWANI, AND 30.34% KEVIN KOZLOWSKI.
12:18 a.m. Preliminary results are in another blog post.
where are the updates??
the jec sucks…..they take life to seriously
Anyone who’s on the hatchet website Thursday night waiting for SA election results needs to take a good look at how seriously they take student politics. Who are you to talk? Get a life, Andrew.
Well Kyle, you’re not one to talk considering you commented on this post. Some people are interested in the results. Get over it, this is GW.
please tell me who won!
whats with the updates? this is the most unlive thing ever…
the JEC was better when Lux and Fox were in it!
GOOOO THEM!!!
“to determine voter intent”?
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hey kyle…..i am on this website as one of my boys is running and i want to know if he won……soon as his seat is announced i am outta here…..have fun analyzing the results bro
Seriously on the last comment?
Who ARE your sources? Insightful, riveting. Glued to my screen.
Perhaps somebody could tell us what the JEC was doing from 10:38p-11:11p other than wasting time?
obviously rotella can’t Throw a football… At least not hard enough to hurt someone…
Can we get more play by play please?
This is GW. You know how I know? People like you mistake “Get over it, this is GW” as one sentence and not two. Try: “Get over it. This is GW.”
Chris can catch a football?
i am surprised rotella would touch a football…its not made by burberry, gucci, or armani…
Sorry Kyle. I speak 5 languages, English not being my first. Too bad you can’t say the same.
Brilliant counter, Kyle.
Absolutely brilliant…
Andrew-
How many votes for Casey Pond? I tried to get everyone to vote for me.
Casey Pond
Casey Pond for SA President
is rotella in the huddle…he likes that stuff…
Thanks for answering my question. Tim Miller…what a goof.
as soon as this is all over, it’s business, it’s business time…
casey…who are you?
oh wait i just found out you ran during the past two years
what about the grad school seats???
law, med, at large, etc
the “…” for the 6th seat in CCAS is Logan Dobson
what is entailed with the run off?
Guess we stopped the hate after all! What a refreshing set of election results.
Too soon?
What about Law and Grad Senate?
what about the grad seats like the law school?
RECOUNT! OG DEFINITELY GOT THE VOTES BUT THE JEC DIDNT COUNT THEM ALL. THE JEC WAS OUT TO GET HIM FROM THE START WITH THE PETITION STUFF. RECOUNT!
Yeah, I did win a Senate seat. I wouldn’t expect the Hatchet to list them all though.
my names spelled brYce holman
does tim miller still live in his in-laws basement?
Can someone who was blogging or at the announcement tell me if they even announced how many votes OG got? If he got every single write in that would put him just 26 votes above kevin.
obviously he didn’t get them all, there are so many joke votes every year. i almost wrote in Kris Hart – he still gets votes every year. that said, OG probably got a lot of them considering his many freshmen drones.
maybe someone already asked this – but those votes that read “OG” and not his full name don’t count, right?
He received about 900 votes.