Luis Sanchez speaks at TNL Town Hall on March 25. Photo by Matthew Schmitz.
With a total of 177 electronic ballots being cast in the April 2 USUAA elections, Luis Sanchez and vice-presidential running mate Eisa Chang won — securing 79 votes, or 44.6%. This victory comes in landslide margins, with opponents Iqlas Dubed/Fortune Dinganga scoring 52 votes at 29.3% and Joe Pavia-Jones/Hannah Huber scoring 36 votes at 20.3%. Abstentions — numbering 10 — accounted for 5.6% of the total.
The Sanchez-Chang campaign’s aggressive get-out-the-vote initiatives — marked by a series of lighthearted fliers featuring jokes and pop-culture references — greatly increased its public profile in the run-up. The policy proposals of the incoming Sanchez administration were outlined in a TNL candidate’s town-hall last month. There, Sanchez proposed increasing Seawolf Shuttle frequency through a dual route and increasing outreach and transparency between USUAA and the student body. Chang emphasized bolstering Disability Support Services and building a positive work environment in student government. Optimizing parking space use through clearly communicating space availability is also a chief priority of their upcoming term.
In other votes, USUAA senate incumbents saw no major challenges in this cycle, with Chuol Mut, Jowielle Corpuz and Jason Ritter retaining their seats. The incumbents saw small write-in challenges from Kaitlin Norton and others who were unnamed.
Delegate elections for various colleges largely went unfilled, with unspecified write-in candidates scoring single-digit vote-counts facing down a consistent spread of 149 abstentions for each vote. An exception for named-candidate participation appeared in the Graduate College, where Aaron Barker secured seven votes.
Concert Board’s makeup remained largely unchanged with Fotokalafi Vea, Selma Casagranda, Hannah Bissett, Winston Ajakaye and Titessa Epsilon all retaining their seats.
Green Fee Board saw Richard Perez-Smith II and Louis Javanovich retaining their seats — seeing only 11 write-in votes for Lila Steele and unnamed others.
With 170 abstentions and 11 write-ins, the Media Board remained unchanged.
Ballots were sent to students electronically in late March, with the voting deadline set at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday April 2.
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