If Students Can't Take a Minute to Vote Online What Will Happen On Nov. 4

For the first time Associated Student Senate elections were completely electronic and according to officials resulted in no major issues. This election was expected to produce a higer informed voter turnout.

Students could vote from the comfort of their home or go to one of the four polling stations setup by AS for the senator that would be representing their college. Still this didn't keep students from completely disregarding it and probable not voting.

Last semester only 4.6 percent out of the almost 39,000 students enrolled at CSUN voted.

While some students walked without a glance past the polling stations or the calls from volunteers to participate, some decided to stop and vote. A testament to the apathy of students, who could careless about politics or anything that could affect them.

“I didn’t really know who I voted for I just picked one,” Betty Li, freshman business major said. “Next time I should know more and make the right decision.”

Still some students took advantage of the voter guides available at the booths before they voted for the senator that would be representing them, like Nareg Bostanian.

“I read the guide before I voted, but I would’ve like to have known about it before,” said the freshman undecided major.

Stephanie Vogler, a freshman health science major, while realizing the importance of voting said she would “probably vote” as she walked past the polling station.

As she was reading her voter guide Katherine Opitz, senior broadcast journalism major reflected on the apathy of not only students, but voters in general.

“There’s an imbalance between people not coming out to vote and people voting who are not informed,” Opitz said. “I think a lot of people don’t know the overall issues.”

AS Vice President, Nicole Umali agreed that to a certain extent students on campus are apathetic.

“Students are somewhat apathetic because we tend to live in our bubbles and not know what’s going on at times,” Umali said. “Voters in general will come out if there’s an issue that grabs their attention.”