Monday, October 5, 2009

There are several kiosks set up all throughout campus by members of both the unite and bamf parties for the SGA elections. Members of both will most likely walk up to you and try to convince you to vote for their party, this can be quite aggravating if you are running late to class and you have to stop to tell two different people that you have either already voted or you don’t have time. They also do not go into great detail about who their candidates are or what they stand for, they just hand you a sheet with a list of name on it and promise that they will bring more money to your particular major. The only true difference I have noticed between the two groups so far is that the unite party has more current members, their pitch is to tell us to go with experience and vote for the unite party while bamf party tries to convince us to vote for change. However these kiosks do promote a larger participation in the voting process by the student body, if it weren’t for all these activists telling me about the elections I most likely wouldn’t have voted at all even though I really didn’t know who I was voting for. Truly it’s a lot like the United States election process, two groups telling you how different they are from one another and when all is said and done it’s hard to tell who is who based on their decisions.

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