Students will virtually head to their computers and vote for the second time in a week today after a glitch in the new on-line ballot system resulted in the need for a supplementary election for Student Assembly vice president.
The computer problem, discovered in the midst of last week's student elections, caused an unknown number of votes for Assembly vice president cast by the freshman class to be lost.
Students will be able to vote from today until 8 p.m. tomorrow when the polls will close.
Results of student elections for class councils, Committee on Standards and Green Key Honor Society were released after last week's elections, but the results of the Assembly presidential race were withheld in order not to taint the supplementary vote.
The results of the Assembly presidential and vice presidential races as well as the names of elected members at-large will be released tomorrow night.
Tom Caputo '96, a member of the Election Advisory Committee who developed the secure server on-line voting system, said the system is ready for voters today.
"The change was just fixing a typo that was existing from the last election ballot" and creating a ballot just for the vice presidential race, he said.
Caputo said typically fewer people vote in a vice presidential race as opposed to a presidential race.
"I hope the voter turnout will be as strong [as last week,]" Caputo said.
All three ballot candidates also said they would like to see a high voter turnout in the election.
Assembly vice presidential candidate Joan Ai '98 said she would be impressed to see half the number of people voting as did last week, and said she is "scared no one is going to vote."
"We've come this far," Ai said. "I hope everyone sticks with us."
She said she thinks people have already made the decision as to who they will vote for, but she still wants to remind people to vote.
Ai did not put any posters up in the last week advertising her campaign, and she said she was not planning to use the $20 allotted to each candidate by the EAC for campaigning.
Bill Kartalopoulos '97 said yesterday he planned to put posters up last night and this morning to advertise World Wide Web page promoting his campaign.
"The best thing the candidates can do is just make sure that people participate in the re-vote, whether that be through signs, posters, BlitzMail or just word of mouth," Kartalopoulos said.
Chris Swift '97 said he is "still going."
"I'm in this 100 percent," he said. "I have no intention of slowing down on account of a computer glitch. The issues are too important to me."
Swift said yesterday he planned to talk to as many students as possible before they vote to "see what we all have in common."
The World Wide Web address for the vote is http://www.dartmouth.edu/projects/election.
