ASCC election voters elected one person, with the other candidates not reaching the 50 votes required in the Associated Students of Citrus College Constitution in Article VIII section three.
Jamie Iles was elected president getting 52 votes, fulfilling the requirement of 50 votes.
Rosario Garcia, an adviser to the ASCC board, said a special election will begin 10 school days after the election on May 24. Garcia said the special election will have differences.
“Students are going to be voting for senators for the student trustee and now for the amendments to the constitution,” Garcia said.
One of the amendments changes the vote to simple majority instead of the 50-vote requirement, Garcia said.
In the ASCC meeting on May 10, the board said the amendment of the start date for student trustees from May 14 to May 15 of next year to June 1 and May 31 of next year was approved.
The ASCC board said the amendment for amendments and revisions being available to students for at least five school days before an election instead of 10 was approved.
However, Garcia said the approval of the amendments is still up to the students.
“It’s possible that the majority of students decide that they don’t like those changes,” Garcia said. “… So then it doesn’t change.”
Having students fall short of the 50-vote requirement is not usual, Garcia said. Last year lack of votes were caused by students taking online classes, Garcia said.
Garcia said the lack of votes this election year was harder to pinpoint.
“Maybe students are not as engaged, you know?,” Garcia said. “Again a lot of students are taking online classes they’re not all here so it’s hard, it’s challenging. So that’s why you know we wanted to make those amendments to the constitution because you know things have changed.”
Garcia said election results are posted outside the Campus Center and that this is the only place they are required to have them.
