2010 Student Election results
By: Alethea Paul -

The results of the Undergraduate Student Elections that ran from April 19 through the 21 are in. Yasmin Karimian and her running mate Richard Blissett were elected as President and Executive Vice President respectively by a 94.4% of the undergraduate vote, while 5.6% voted for write-ins. William Joyner was elected Vice President for Student Organizations with 56.8% of the votes. He had run against Emily Han. Kaylesh Ramu was elected Treasurer with 95.2% against 4.8% of the votes for write-ins.

Jessica Ji, Rosalyn Chirayath, Sekinah Hassan, Morgan Russo, and Tehmeena Hassan were elected to the Finance Board. Also, Chidiebele Agha, Vikram Bambawale, Sumit Bose, Dylan Cook, Alexander Gaines, Gift Jayakar, Toby Le, Damani Lewis, Matthew McNey, Jasmine Batchelor, and Benjamin Smith who were appointed to the Senate.

All four referendums were passed as well. Referendum A aimed to “make more students eligible to serve in SGA” was the most closely contested with 59.5% of the votes for it, and 40.5% of the votes against it. The other referendums B, C and D were the SGA Non-discrimination Clause, SGA Finance Board Authority to Participate in Amending Guiding Documents and Approving Appointments, and SGA Supreme Court Restructuring respectively all passed with over 75% of the undergraduate vote.

UMBC had 23.8% of the Undergraduates Vote in the Student Elections, totaling in 2,368 votes, the second largest vote total ever for a UMBC SGA election. This total is greater than both University of Maryland College Park that had 17.8% and Towson University that had 13.3% of their undergraduate vote according to their campus websites.

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