The number of people who voted on campus in city elections Tuesday more than quadrupled those who voted in 2006.
More than 1,500 registered on-campus voters turned out at the polls on Tuesday as opposed to 363 in 2006, according to the Supervisor of Elections.
UF business management senior Nicole Joury said her motive for voting was to fight Amendment 1, which, if passed, would have removed Gainesville's civil rights ordinance.
Joury said if she didn't feel so strongly about the amendment, she would have remained a registered voter in West Palm, where she has voted in the past.
"They're covering it up with this bullshit about protecting people in bathrooms or whatever," she said. "No one should have the ability to take away people's rights like that just because they don't agree with how you live your life."
Seventy-eight percent of those who voted at UF's two campus precincts voted against Charter Amendment 1.
UF freshman Christen Downing also voted because of her strong opinions on the two amendments, but said she didn't vote for a commission candidate.
"I didn't think I could make an educated vote there," she said, "so I just voted for the amendments."
Eighty-one percent of on-campus voters voted yes on Amendment 2, which requires the passing of a state referendum before converting land currently used for recreational or conservation purposes to other use.
Out of those who voted, only 75 percent of students voted for a commission candidate, as opposed to 100 percent in 2006.
Garrett Garner, a UF history senior and campus coordinator for Equality is Gainesville's Business, said he thinks the controversy over Amendment 1 was the biggest cause of student turnout.
"Students just don't support taking rights away, so they turned out en masse today," he said.
Garner said that Equality is Gainesville's Business pushed its cause on campus because a lot of students know what the amendment meant for the civil rights of Gainesville residents.
Once they learned about it, Garner said, most wanted to take a stand against the discriminatory amendment.
"They stepped up today and overwhelmingly said, 'We do not support discrimination," he said.
