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With the Judicial Board invalidating the results of the ASWSU executive election there is going to be a new election April 23 and 24th. It is likely that the winners Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson will just win again.
Here were the results from the election:

Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson 2129 votes 48%

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner 1450 votes 33%

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll 862 votes 19%

If the other two tickets want a shot at beating Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson they are going to have to make a deal that sees just one ticket facing off against the previous winners. Even this might not work as Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson already have the momentum and the advantage as already being seen as winners. One might think they would offer one of the losing tickets positions in their administration just to be safe.

One item of note is that Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson is the only ticket who doesn’t still have their website up.

For the last few years Cougster has accurately predicted the winner of the ASWSU election. Along with getting the winners correct we have been predicting the percentage of the vote each ticket will receive pretty well. We make our predictions based on the number people on each tickets’ facebook group page.

Once again here is our prediction for this year.

As of this morning there are combined total of 2476 members of the three tickets’ facebook groups. We divide the numbers of members in each individual group by the total number of members in all the groups so x/2476

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll: 381 members = 15.39%

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner: 1100 members = 44.43%

Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson: 995 members = 40.19%

Based on these numbers we predict Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner will win with 44.43% of the vote.

Of course you never know what is going to happen so you should vote if you have not done so yet.

Here are the websites of the candidates:

Ryan Mulenga and Sarah Driscoll
http://mulengadriscoll.com

Jake Bredstrand and Molly Aigner
http://VoteJakeandMolly.com

Derick En’Wezoh and Jay Hendrickson
http://empoweringyou09.com

Last year before the ASWSU election Cougster predicted the winners and percentage of the vote for the presidential race. Our predictions turned out to be nearly spot on. So we are doing it again. Based purely on the facebook we predict Scheller/Fry-Pierce the winners.

Here is how we get that and the percentage of the vote:

Last time we also looked at how many friends each candidate had but we can’t see how many friends Leslie Lambert has (if you know tell us) so will skip that for now. Grace Davis has 538 friends listed at WSU. Brandon Scheller has 521 and Adam Fry-pierce has 546. It is interesting how Davis has almost twice as many friends listed at WSU than members of the vote Davis/Lambert groups. The Fresh Four have 282 friends in their group but of course they were disqualified. We at Cougster have had our own experience with the election board and the judicial board. Let’s just say we were not fans of them in the past. We hope the Fresh Four will try again next year but if they want to win, they will need to settle on 2 people and get on the ballot. Overall we think this is a mediocre year and are not impressed with any of the tickets.

Now voting is super simple and easy to do so you should still vote despite our predictions, epecially if you are for Davis/Lambert.  Heck scoring an upset and proving us wrong would make a great story….

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So who is going to win the ASWSU race? Well it all come down to popularity (issues, yeah right). So Cougster is going to call the race right now for Kasey Webster and Tommy Simmons. We base our prediction purely on the facebook. We are not backing anyone.

Here are the numbers:

Interesting to see how 2 of the tickets have more people listed as friends than people in their group.

We didn’t count the write in ticket of Phil and Johannes for ASWSU 07-08 (President & VP). 
Their facebook group found here has 214 members. 

Now of course you should still vote no matter what we predict. If you don’t know any of the people go to their webpages (see a few post below this) and see who you think has the best platform.

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Apparently the ASWSU likes to spend a lot of your money for them to bond. Did you know they spent $8,000 on a retreat for themselves?? Compare that with say Cougfest, which is for all students, where they spent only $4,000! We are all for the ASWSU having a retreat but spending $8,000 on it is an outrage.

We have last year’s ASWSU budget showing what committees got how much and what they spent it on. Find out where your money is going. See the two files, ASWSU programming budget 2005-06 and ASWSU Admin Exec budget 2005-06 in the Cougster Files in the WSU General folder. See if you think they are spending your money wisely.

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