ASB president candidates Alyssa Taneza-Jones and Ian Rubinstein competed against each other, with Taneza-Jones winning hugely by 147 votes to Rubinstein’s 50 votes becoming the new ASB president, while the other three candidates went uncontested.
Newly elected ASB president Taneza-Jones discussed how it felt to win the election.
“It’s a great feeling and I’m excited to work with my other cabinet members and get to work on some future projects that’ll benefit our students,” Taneza-Jones said.
The four body members selected were Taneza-Jones (ASB president), Cesar Fierro (ASB Secretary), Donell Jones (Student Trustee), and Kindyl Tisby (ASB Vice President).
There were also ten changes to the constitution that were voted on which came to an agree or disagree vote and only language changes were proposed.
The candidates had three of the five uncontested, with the ASB president race being between two candidates Rubinstein and Taneza-Jones.
The votes were down from this year election compared to last years election race, Teila Robertson, ASB advisor explained that voting woes are merely on the candidates.
“Voting scores are lower from last years, but it’s really all on the candidates to go out there and markets themselves,” Robertson said.
Student trustee Jones had a total of 195 votes, compared to the 400 votes from the student trustee last year.
Current ASB president Jan Paolo Canteras discussed what was different from this years election compared to last years.
“Surprisingly their were lower votes from last years election usually we prepare for the election the semester of, but this semester we prepared the semester prior, we had events to encourage more voters but we were just really busy this semester,” Canteras said.
There were a total of 763 votes, Tisby received 188 votes, Fierro had 183 votes, and between Taneza-Jones and Rubinstein there was total of 197 votes with Taneza-Jones receiving 147 votes and Rubinstein 50 votes.
The Associated Student Body held elections for new cabinet members that began on Tuesday, April 23 with voting ending on Friday, April 26.
With the new cabinet members selected for the 2019-2020 semester there’s optimism amongst the members to bring some changes to the school and encourage more voters for next year’s elections.