Students on the Downtown campus passed a referendum Thursday to enact the universal constitution and an updated elections code by a two-to-one margin.
The Downtown campus is the first campus to adopt the “universal” constitution, which is designed to make all of ASU’s student governments more uniform and link them more closely together. West and Polytechnic are proposing the vote early next semester and Tempe may vote later in the semester.
The final Downtown votes were announced a little after 6 p.m. About 63 percent, or 255, of the 405 ballots cast voted in favor of the constitution.
“Today’s results show that the majority of Downtown students want a student government actively working on their behalf,” said President Joseph Grossman in a statement Thursday night. “They saw the need for new governing documents, and I wholeheartedly thank them for their support.”
Some students were concerned about not having time to review the 27-page constitution and elections code for Tuesday’s original vote, but Grossman said he hoped students used the extra day before Thursday’s voting to look over the documents.
After the first day of voting, Grossman said students were supporting the constitution and votes were reflecting that. There were 297 votes recorded in the first day.
The second day only had 108 votes, and an astounding 76.9 percent of votes Thursday were in favor.
Voting was extended to Thursday because MyASU crashed Tuesday between 12:10 p.m. and 4:44 p.m., hampering some students’ ability to access the ballot. As a result, voting was extended to Thursday from about noon to 4 p.m.
More students voted in the referendum over two days than voted in last spring’s special election that made Grossman president.
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