The Class of 2013 yesterday elected four students to the Freshman Class Council, but the contest did not go off without a hitch.
The Programming Board mistakenly left candidate Smriti Choudhury, one of three freshmen vying to be the council's secretary, off the ballot. Another election will be held for the secretarial position from 9 a.m. to midnight today.
In the race for class president, Victor Wang, running unopposed, snapped up the position.
Hilary Ludlow and Dan Kim came out on top in a field of three students running for vice presidential positions, Programming Board Co-Chair Sarah Habib told the Daily. Ludlow garnered the most votes and therefore received the vice president of social programming spot. Kim came in second, earning him the vice president of academic programming position.
Freshman Julia Hajnoczky ran unopposed as class treasurer.
Choudhury, Sharonne Holtzman and Rosiris Leon-Rivera will be on the ballot tomorrow in the rescheduled secretarial vote.
Twenty-one percent of freshmen voted in the election, according to Elections Commissions Chair Kevin Terhorst, a senior. Habib, a junior, said she was surprised by the scarce interest in filling the positions.
"We had a lot of people ask for applications," she said. "We were surprised that we only received seven."
Terhorst said that though the turnout was low, it was similar to that of prior years. Freshman Class Council elections in 2008 received a 24-percent voter turnout; in 2007, about 30 percent of the freshman class voted.
Terhorst attributed the low numbers in part to a lack of advertising and scarce freshman knowledge of the election.
Aside from the ballot error -- which was not the fault of the technology system -- Terhorst said the vote, which was run by the online voting service VoteNet, ran smoothly.
