GSG Officer Elections 2009
Final Report
March 11, 2009


1. Results
The results of the 2009 Officer Elections are as follows:
 Giri Parameswaran was approved as Chair;
 Aurelien Fraisse was approved as Corresponding Secretary;
 Anne Twitty was elected as Press Secretary;
 Marina Paul was approved as Recording Secretary;
 Raghuveer Vinukollu was approved as Treasurer; and,
 Jasdave "Raja" Chahal was approved as Social Chair.

Note that there were no candidates for the office of Parliamentary Secretary and Sarah Milov withdrew candidacy for Corresponding Secretary on February 19.


2. Vote Counts
The total number of votes cast for each office was 538.
 Chair
  Giri Parameswaran: 363
  Disapprove: 39
  Abstain: 136
 Corresponding Secretary
  Aurelien Fraisse: 346
  Dissapprove: 26
  Abstain: 166
 Press Secretary
  Sally Ling: 173
  Anne Twitty: 315
  Disapprove of All Candidates: 10
  Abstain: 40
 Recording Secretary
  Marina Paul: 352
  Disapprove: 28
  Abstain: 158
 Tresurer
  Raghuveer K Vinukollu: 341
  Disapprove: 29
  Abstain: 168
 Social Chair
  Jasdave "Raja" Chahal: 351
  Disapprove: 26
  Abstain: 161


3. Quorum
Quorum was met for each office.
Quorum (for each office) is 10% of the number of enrolled graduate students. The total number of enrolled graduate students (as reported by Lisa Schreyer, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School) is 2378. Hence, quorum for each office was 238 votes. The enrollment information received from the Graduate School was broken down into the following enrolled categories: RGLR (2075), ABX (24), DCE (195), INAB (84).


4. Other Remarks
No discrepancies arose with the vote counts and no races were deemed void -- save for the office of Parliamentary Secretary, which was deemed void by the Assembly in February. No candidates were deemed ineligible. There were no disputes regarding voter eligibility. We were not contacted by any post-enrolled students who wished to pay the GSG fee to be eligible to vote.
We video taped the meet-the-candidates forum; however, the audio quality was very poor, so we decided not to post it.