ULSU Elections 2014 (Voting Thursday March 13) #VoteUL

ninty9er

Dante on Fire wrote: »

See you at hustings tonight
Chair will be Paddy Buckley

All the best to candidates!
Paddy

No Joe Wallace? This is an outrage!

Polar Ice

Dante on Fire wrote: »

Chair will be Paddy Buckley

Rockett has created his opportunity to return. Inviting former sabbats to chair hustings!

djnr8

bigpink wrote: »

But he why not keep it all irish

How many people do you think could read it if it was?

He could have probably printed double sided leaflets with his manifesto in English on one side and Irish on the Nother but it's all cost at the end of the day for little reward. There was a big deal made 2 years ago about Irish in the union, seen to have gone back into hiding now they have somebody who would probably have an opinion on it

Dante on Fire

Polar Ice wrote: »

Rockett has created his opportunity to return. Inviting former sabbats to chair hustings!

Damn...that noticeable was it.

Massive thank you to Paddy, Liz and the ERB for their work so far. Looking forward to seeing record numbers vote tomorrow!

Polar Ice

djnr8 wrote: »

He could have probably printed double sided leaflets with his manifesto in English on one side and Irish on the Nother but it's all cost at the end of the day for little reward.

Dante on Fire

Voting for your new sabbatical team is LIVE!

You can cast your vote here: https://vote.ulsu.ie/index.php/

Very best of luck to all candidates.

Closing 8pm

freyners

Despite my apathy towards it this year voted anyways. Is there any way to get the old i voted stamp?

Dante on Fire

11AM VOTING COUNT: 1060 for Welfare; 1241 President

Keep it going Campaigners and voters alike!
Cast your vote here: https://vote.ulsu.ie/index.php/

Best of Luck to all candidates.

Paddy

highlydebased

As of 11am 1241 have voted for president and 1060 for welfare. Seems higher than previous years? (Source: SU FB Page)

mahonykid

bigpink wrote: »

Why is Tommy using his name in Irish on Facebook?
These campaigns cost Ing much I wonder

Hes fluent in Irish, also hes studying teaching, alot of teachers change their name to its irish equivilent when going out on TP

chrislad

mahonykid wrote: »

Hes fluent in Irish, also hes studying teaching, alot of teachers change their name to its irish equivilent when going out on TP

Yup, both my wife and sister did it. Stops the kids snooping on Facebook!

Dante on Fire

2362 president 1975 welfare
Over 15% of student population have voted . Go teams!!!

Paddy

Jester252

What's the record

Russellynx

MC1R is a gene that is responsible, more or less, for people having red hair. It's highly associated with the Irish archetype but is probably slightly more prevalent in people of Scottish heritage.

People with red hair, have through antiquity, been associated with various personality traits, mostly not very flattering. Fiery redheads, short tempered and prone to anger is the most typical sterotype. More recently there has been much stigma associated with this phenotype, "do gingers have souls" a internet meme had a high degree of penetration in popular culture particularly in the western and anglophone parts of the world.

This bias and prejudice has gone a step further with sperm banks having a "no red hair" option for recipients. Of course being an autosomal recessive trait such antics are not really very relevant.

So what has this got to do with SU? Well the West of Ireland (or the mid-west in politico-economio-speak) has a particularly high degree of red heads (con-consanguinity?) and several have ran for SU positions.

The most recent candidate to spring to mind would be Keith 'Ginge' Young, who took his red hair and made it his talisman rather than as a curse. However, despite the most qualified candidate on paper, he was soundly beaten at the polls.

Again why is this relevant to the here and now? Well right now we have three excellent candidates, Caroline 'Carol' Hennessy, Lorna Bogue and Mark Nother
who could be described as being homozygous for MC1R.

Carol is in a 50:50 race with a Shane McCormick (brown hair) and Lorna and Mark are in a three way race with Tommy Bolger (Brown hair). All things being equal shouldn't we expect at least one of the red heads to win the contest?

Without having any access to any exit polls or current voting trends, I'd be my house that neither of these red haired candidates will win. Lorna, as I have already mentioned, is ideally suited to the SU job and has many qualities that would allow her to excel. I also think Mark NOther is a high calibre candidate, basically having done an internship in SU president thus far and really would be perfect for the role. But I suspect, Tommy B, who is essentially a highly charismatic joke candiate will win. Why? Because of his signature heart thumping? Possibly. But I posit that it is because there is a curse on those with red hair and people, including the irish, are prejudice against them in popularity competitions.

The same goes for Carol and Shane. Now in fairness, this is a very equal content, you really can't put much between them, but again i suspect, shane will prevail because he doesn't have red hair.

wait and see.

reunion

Russellynx wrote: »

pointless rant

The possibility is 5/6th's. But that would discount campaigning.

When are the results announced?

Reiver

Voting shuts at 1900 and announcement is at 2000 I believe!

And turns out Bolger is now on Buzzfeed! Where next?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dray/this-is-the-most-fantastic-student-president-campa-4666

goldencrisp62

Heard unofficially from a source on the ERB that bulger currently has 60 % of the vote. Shane and Catriona neck and neck.

Ginge Young

goldencrisp62 wrote: »

Heard unofficially from a source on the ERB that bulger currently has 60 % of the vote. Shane and Catriona neck and neck.

Don't believe the ERB have access to the vote count.

Also it's Carol.

bazkennedy

Ginge Young wrote: »

Don't believe the ERB have access to the vote count.

They don't

Dante on Fire

goldencrisp62 wrote: »

Heard unofficially from a source on the ERB that bulger currently has 60 % of the vote. Shane and Catriona neck and neck.

Incorrect. The ERB can only see the voting counts to date. There are no indications of lead in any of the races.

False information unfortunately.

It is impossible to know until the voting closes at 8

the first time it will be seen is by Liz and the returning officer to verify this.

No members of the ERB know anything more than the numbers voting not their preference.

Its both physically and logistically impossible with our system

Reiver

http://www.sensacine.com/noticias/cine/noticia-18517426/

Its looks like Tommy might be able to get an appointment in Spain anyways.

Jester252

Love how the article slight censored the quote.

Dante on Fire

VOTE COUNT 6PM: 3611 President 2986 Welfare

4176 is the number to beat from Last year

2hours left -well done all of you.

#VoteUL

Paddy

Jester252

Around 500 votes off the record

Dante on Fire

Think they can pull 500 in the last 2 hours?

wnolan1992

Impressive figures. Thought it'd be well down on last year if I'm honest.

Bolger surely will win it by a landslide...

Jester252

Dante on Fire wrote: »

Think they can pull 500 in the last 2 hours?

Possible but would require a big push from the runners. The people who would have voted today have already voted. The last 500 or so is going to be make up with people who had no plans on voting or just forgot. The time doesn't help.

Polar Ice

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Bolger surely will win it by a landslide...

They are relative good turnout figures. I'd imagine higher turnout helps Bolger, but this isn't anywhere near record breaking turnout

marblepaper

Voted for Tommy and Carol. A few others tried voting and it didn' t work they said? ?

Jester252

Polls closed. So how long till the results?