Class Council results released; revote to occur for Class of 2018

The Committee on Student Elections reported the results of the Student Government Association (SGA) Class Council elections on Monday afternoon. Current Junior Class Senator Amy Sun, running unopposed, was elected president of the Class of 2016, and incumbent Syed Hossain was reelected president of the Class of 2017 over two contenders.

In the race for the Class of 2018 president, where current President Anna Du faced off against Senator Alberto “Pepe” Muniz, an error in the vote-counting system has necessitated a revote.

The use of quotation marks around the word “Pepe” in Muniz’s name on the ballot confused the system, and not all of the votes for Muniz were tallied successfully.

From 9 a.m. until 11:59 p.m Tuesday, the voting will reopen for the Class of 2018 presidential election at vote.jhu.edu. All those who voted during the original voting period will have to vote again.

In an email sent to the freshman class, the SGA encouraged all freshmen to vote in this close election.

“Please take a minute out of your day tomorrow to cast (or re-cast) your vote. Because it is only for one position between two candidates, voting should take less than a minute in total,” the email said. “Make sure your voice is heard! And if you have friends who voted this weekend, but may have missed this email, be sure to share it with them and let them know that tomorrow’s vote is the one that counts.”

Muniz will now be listed on the ballot as “Muniz, Alberto Pepe” to avoid another malfunction.

Next year’s sophomore class council will be Sarah Zappone, Kwame Alston, Sathvik Namburar, Lilly Su, Mieraf Teka and Tatiana Sorenson. They were the only six candidates to run for the six positions.

For next year’s junior class council, Hossain was reelected president with 305 votes over Alex Sadler with 155 votes and Ope Olukorede with 147 votes. Charlotte Green, Matthew Brown, Nick McCormack, Liam Haviv, Andrew Phipps and Michael Korn were elected senators out of eight candidates.

For the senior class, Sun was elected president with 234 votes. Only four candidates were on the ballot for the six senator positions. Kanami Mori, Saman Baban, Amanda Lourenco and Max Wilde were elected along with two write-in candidates, Leela Subramaniam and Nadine Abdullat, who received 57 and 30 votes, respectively.