Gator won the executive ticket with Olivia Green as president, Clara Calavia as vice president and Nyla Pierre as treasurer. In the Senate, Change won 30 seats, Gator won 19 and a non-party affiliated write-in candidate won a seat as well.
Thousands of UF students lined up across on-campus polling locations Tuesday for the first day of the Spring Student Government elections.
Self-identified Christian Nationalist streamers Tyler Russell and Dalton Clodfelter began tabling at the Plaza of the Americans at about 1:30 p.m., donned in Yeezy merchandise, with a few supporters. A few feet across from them, the UF Jewish community showed up en masse.
It was “research material” on the first floor of Turlington Hall that caused hundreds of students to flood out of the building when law enforcement ordered an evacuation of the building around 12:30 p.m, UF spokesperson Cynthia Roldan said.
Candidates Mary Alford, Marihelen Wheeler and Ken Cornell won the District 1, District 2 and DIstrict 4 County Commission races, respectively.
STRING: Voters take to the polls to cast their vote in the 2022 midterm elections. Local and statewide candidates brought voters out on Election Day.
Around 50 protesters gathered outside Emerson Alumni Hall Tuesday morning to express their disapproval of Sasse’s selection as the sole finalist for the position of UF’s 13th president.
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After just ten minutes protesting outside, around 300 protestors moved up the staircase of Emerson Alumni Hall to the second floor. UF administrators and police stood stone-faced outside the ballroom, Emerson Hall echoing from the slams of dozens of fists on the solid wooden doors to the ballroom.
Though Change was five candidates short of a full slate, it won 27 seats in the Fall election, overcoming Gator’s 22-seat grab and reducing its Senate supermajority. Liberation Party didn’t claim any seats.
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