Voter turnout for Student Association elections on campus is pathetic, considering we are ranked the most politically active student body in the country.
And while I understand that SA campaigns don’t attract the same sort of fanfare and widespread support as national elections, I would hope that this year, voter turnout gets a boost from a sometimes unreliable source: The student organizations who endorse the candidates.
Often, the candidate a group chooses to endorse has reached out to the org and made it clear that they will advocate on behalf of its interests. Usually this occurs because the members of the student org are familiar, or friendly, with the candidate they endorse.
Regardless of the reason, endorsements can be pretty powerful for student voters. And as such, voter turnout should really reflect that. Orgs should continue to push their members and the surrounding community to go out and vote on election day.
I’m not saying that every member has to vote for the same person, but every member should at least vote. Otherwise, not only is the endorsement process a joke, the election process itself is too.
Lyndsey Wajert, a senior majoring in journalism, is a senior columnist.
