{"id":3593,"date":"2016-04-25T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2016-04-25T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:17:36","slug":"aswou-elections-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/aswou-elections-update\/","title":{"rendered":"ASWOU Elections Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jenna Beresheim\r\nNews Editor<\/pre>\n<p>ASWOU elections were upon Western\u2019s campus once more the week of April 18 with booths and multiple events lined up throughout the week to draw in voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we had seven events on campus ranging from campus-focused to residence <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-25-at-7.13.26-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-04-25 at 7.13.26 PM\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3631 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-25-at-7.13.26-PM.png 350w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-25-at-7.13.26-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-25-at-7.13.26-PM-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>hall-focused. These events provided a grueling schedule for those of us running them, but it has been more than worth it seeing the students get involved,\u201d said Jenesa Ross, a senior biology major and Judicial Administrator for ASWOU, as well as the current Elections Committee Chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot more people running and even more of them voting this year,\u201d said Jaime Hernandez, a sophomore political science major, and candidate for ASWOU president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were more votes by Tuesday this year than there were all week in last year\u2019s [election],\u201d said Cynthia Olivares, a sophomore early childhood education major. Olivares is also running for vice president of ASWOU this year.<\/p>\n<p>There are nine candidates overall this year, and the 10 percent minimum requirement for voting had already been surpassed by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think some of these will be close races,\u201d said Ross, \u201cseveral opposing candidates are working very hard to get their name out there to the students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASWOU elections were upon Western\u2019s campus once more the week of  April 18 with booths and multiple events lined up throughout the week to draw in voters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}