Online Elections of the Full time Office bearers of USSU

Any registered student of the University can nominate themselves for the full time office bearer’s posts of University of Sussex Students' Union (USSU). There are six posts- President, Operation Officer, Communication Officer, Activities Officer, Welfare Officer and Education Officer. All the students of the University automatically become members of the Students’ Union and are eligible to vote. The University uses an online voting system which permits eligible students to vote from any computer machine with access to the internet during the voting period.  The University uses Single Transferable Vote (STV) system to calculate the winner. This system allows the voters to rank election candidates in order of preference. There are personal benefits and responsibilities being an office bearer of the Students’ Union. They are elected to work in a paid position in the Students’ Union for an academic year. Nominations were opened to file for the posts of Office bearers from the first day of spring season i.e. 11^th January 2011 and closed at 4.00pm on 26^th January 2011. The event called ‘Meet the Candidates’ was held on 3^rd February 2011 and the opening speeches of the candidates were available to the students later through You Tube for viewing.  The contesting candidates started campaigning from 3^rd Feb.2011.  Online voting started from 8^th Feb. 2011 and ended at 4.00pm on 10^th February 2011. The results were declared at 6.00pm on the same day. Altogether, 2638 votes were casted. Any objections to the results of elections must be submitted to the Returning Officer on before 14^th February 2011. The elected office bearers will resume their office in July 2011.