After a late start for Student Government Association's presidential campaign season, Campus Alliance and Andrews-Albritton '08 executive slates are preparing for the two-day voting period, which starts at 7:45 a.m.
Frank Hood, presidential candidate for Campus Alliance, said the sense of this year's election was some what negative because of the lack of slates at the first nomination convention that were willing to run for office.
With 10 days to assemble an election campaign, Campus Alliance and Andrews-Albritton members both said the time element of the election was difficult.
Hood said, although the 10-day time constraint was challenging, the slate has experienced more teamwork and opportunity, which was not seen as often during previous SGA presidential campaigns.
This year's election became a 10-day race for the executive office rather than what should have been a four-week election.
Hood said many of the people involved in Campus Alliance's campaign this year had worked with U.N.I.T.E.D. Initiative's campaign in 2007, which is why there was not much change in the ideas for Campus Alliance's platform.
"If the wheel is not broken, why fix it?" he said. "While we went through the same campaign process as last election, this year has felt rushed and seemed to go by very fast."
Presidential candidate Mike Andrews said Andrews-Albritton began its campaign with a strategy to be approachable to students and connect with as many voters as possible.
Vice Presidential candidate Steven Albritton said the slate's goal seemed to be a challenge because of the shortened time schedule.
The slate had not been able to reach all of its potential voters to the degree it intended because of the time constraint, Albritton said, but Andrews-Albritton members thought they made a strong presence in the greek and multicultural communities while campaigning.
These two communities seemed to be more individually approachable to Andrews-Albritton's campaign because many of the slate's members are involved in them, Albritton said.
Hood said Campus Alliance intended to contact many of the student organizations on campus, but the time difficulty enabled the slate to contact only 80 percent of its voters.
Andrews and Albritton agreed that, although their slate has a great chance to win, they could see this election going to either slate.
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