ASG Elections 2009

Vote Now!

Runoff Elections for President-Vice President are open from
12:15 AM to 7:00 PM on Friday, April 17th.

Inform yourself, and speak out! Visit candidates' websites now:

• Mike McGee: http://groups.northwestern.edu/mike
• Bill Pulte: http://groups.northwestern.edu/pulte

Learn more about the candidates by reading their Candidate Profiles.

Campus Publicity Guidelines are now available. Download them here.

• Sunday, 4/5: 6-9pm
• Monday and Tuesday (4/6 & 4/7): 7-10pm
• Wednesday, 4/8: 4-6pm
• Thursday and Friday (4/9 & 4/10): 2-5pm
• Saturday, 4/11: 12-3pm
• Sunday, 4/12: 1-4pm
• Monday, 4/13: 3:30-5:30pm
• Tuesday, 4/14: 2-5pm

Monday, April 13th from 7pm-9:30pm, McTrib Forum

• 7:00-7:30 will be devoted to a five minute introductory speech by each the Student Life Director candidate and the Academic Director candidate, followed by a twenty-minute combined question period for both of the candidates.
• 7:30-8:15 will be the Vice-President debates. Questions will consist of media questions and questions submitted by the Northwestern community. Candidates will have the opportunity to respond to each other during the question process.
• 8:15-8:25 will be a ten-minute recess.
• 8:25-9:30 will be the Presidential debates. Questions will consist of media questions and questions submitted by the Northwestern community, followed by candidate questions. Candidates will have the opportunity to respond to each other during the question process. Each Presidential candidate will have three minutes to make a closing speech.

The process for submitting questions will be released within the next two days, and submitted questions can be made specific to a position, but not directed to a particular candidate or only selected candidates.

To All Candidates,

Welcome to the 2009 ASG Elections. Here is the timeline for this year's campus-wide ASG elections:

• 5:00pm Friday, April 3rd: All petitions to run (signatures from no fewer than 200 and no more than 300 full-time undergraduate Northwestern students) and candidate information forms due to the Election Commission.
  The Election Commission will be in the ASG Office (Norris 3rd floor) to collect petitions and information forms starting at 2pm on Friday, April 3rd.
• 1:00pm Saturday, April 4th: Mandatory Election Information Session for candidates and campaign managers running for campus-wide election, location TBA.
• 12:01am Monday, April 6th: Non-verbal campaigning begins.
• TBA: Campus-wide Office Candidate Debates
• 5:00pm Tuesday, April 14th: All campaign receipts due to the Election Commission.
• Wednesday, April 15th: ELECTION DAY [if necessary, Friday, April 17th: Run-off elections]

Questions for the Election Commission may be directed to pds@u.northwestern.edu

Sincerely,
The Election Commission