(Data as of 6:15PM Tuesday, 25/08/2020)
Voting for the ANUSA elections kicked off again this morning after a failed start yesterday. As of 6:15PM, 1284 students have cast their votes. The rate of voting started strongly at 9AM and tapered off quite consistently for the rest of the day.
The 1284-strong first day voter turnout constitutes 7.03% of all eligible voters. This number surpasses half of last year’s total showing at 2321, suggesting that most of this year’s race for the Student Representative Council (SRC) has already been run.
The rate of voting peaked at around 50 voters every ten minutes around 10AM and gradually declined throughout the day.
Voting Day 0.1 vs. Voting Day 1
Voting was quite stop-start yesterday: it was halted once at 9:15AM, resumed at 10AM, and halted once again at 10:41AM. Despite this rather discontinuous access, voter behaviour seems to have been largely unaffected.
Surprisingly, the initial rate of voting was greater this morning than yesterday’s initial rate. However, a comparison of the first 46 minutes of voting — the length of time voting was open on Monday — on the two days shows that Monday attracted more voters than Tuesday during that period of time.
ANUSA President Lachy Day said that the numbers today were “incredibly positive” and that he has “been incredibly impressed and gratified with the voter response to the delay.”
“… most people I have talked to … have been understanding of [the fact that this was] a third-party software issue that was outside of ANUSA’s control. Students should be critical of mistakes when they happen and I look forward to delivering a special report at SRC 6 which should hopefully address why the issues occurred and what ANUSA can do to learn from this experience to make sure it is never repeated.”
