Northwestern’s Associated Student Government Senate voted to overhaul the executive board election timeline during its Wednesday night meeting. At its third meeting this year, the Senate passed legislation moving ASG presidential elections to the sixth week of Winter Quarter. Elections were previously held during the beginning of Spring Quarter. The change goes into effect immediately,.
In its second meeting of Fall Quarter, Northwestern’s Associated Student Government Senate elected and appointed 20 students to several of its internal boards and discussed upcoming financial and inclusion initiatives. “There were a lot of elections, and I’m really excited about the new committee members,” School of Education and Social Policy senior and Speaker of.
Five hundred seventy-seven students voted in ASG Senate elections over the weekend, with turnout approximately 35% higher than in last year’s elections. That was also more than triple the record-low turnout in ASG presidential elections last spring, when 175 students cast ballots. Weinberg senior Dylan Jost, ASG’s executive officer of democracy, said the heightened turnout.