IU awaits election results

During the IU Student Association election debate, Hoosier Vice President of Congress candidate and junior Clark Kaericher said if there's low voter turnout, the fault lies on both tickets for not impassioning the student body to vote.\nTo prevent low turnout, representatives from both tickets, Red Hot and Hoosier, spent Tuesday and Wednesday campaigning across campus. Elections Coordinator Keith Johnson said results from the election will be announced this afternoon. \nAlthough Johnson would not disclose the number of people who have voted, Kaericher said he \n talked to a few thousand. Last year, nearly 9,500 students voted, according to a Feb. 25, 2005, Indiana Daily Student article. This year's voting ended 10 p.m. Wednesday.\nHoosier presidential candidate and junior Betsy Henke said her ticket planned in advance where ticket members would be campaigning in an attempt to draw voters. \n"We'd been working with our team making sure we cover good places," she \n said. "We had our laptops out with access to vote. We've also made sure that everyone at a station is informed."\nRed Hot presidential candidate and junior Lenny Weiss said his ticket has been busy as well.\n"We're going from place to place, and people are really excited," he said. "We're trying to go all over and get people out in public, outside of buildings and in the street." \nHenke said many people she talked to were excited about Hoosier.\n"They see us all over campus. They like the platform," she said.\nShe added that if people didn't want to vote, she didn't force them to.\nWeiss said he'd heard some people were annoyed with the campaigning.\n"Some think (campaigning) is good because they're being informed," he said. "I hear people are annoyed. They say they don't want to be bothered."\nBoth tickets employed laptops to gain voters. Johnson said he hadn't heard of any students having troubling logging in to the ballot.\nAdditionally, neither ticket filed complaints about each other as of press time. Kaericher said both sides have played fair. In fact, he said the tickets played frisbee together in the business school.\nWeiss and Henke both confirmed that no complaints had been filed. Johnson said he expects the rest of the process to run smoothly and complaint-free.\nAs for the election results, \nHenke said the best ticket will win.\n"We hope to win ... No matter what, it's been fun," she said. "We can only hope for the best. We're certainly proud of what we've done."\nWeiss said he doesn't know what will happen Thursday.\n"We're just going to do what we can tonight," he said, "and tomorrow, come what may"