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Facebook: Web site becomes outlet for elections humor, complaints Continued from page 1 into votes. About 7,580 students cur rently have Thefacebook profiles, but only 2,960 students voted in the pri mary election. Ashley Rees and Jael Anker-Lagos’ group has 232 members, but received 907 votes to win the primary. Candi dates Adam Walsh and Kyla Coy have only 30 members in their group, but received 455 votes in the contest. Third-place candidates Jacob Daniels and Adi Cargni have the most members with 712 listed supporter?. Yet the ticket received 22 votes less than Walsh’s campaign. Daniels said it is “tough to say” what effect Thefacebook had on the election, although he expected it to work “a little better” than it did. He said it was a good way to get students interested, but not necessarily the best way to get them to vote. Daniels added that some students were in multiple candidates’ groups. “The loyalty really wasn’t there on Facebook,” he said. ■ How to vote ASUO general elections run through Friday. Students must log into their DuckWeb accounts at duckweb.uoregon.edu to vote. Students can vote for all general and at-large can didates but will only be able to vote for academic senators running for the seat related to their majors. Each student can vote only once. Students must vote by 5 p.m. Friday. Students can vote from any computer with ac cess to DuckWeb. Campus locations include: • EMU Computer Lab • Knight Library Information Technolog/ Center • McKenzie Hall Computer Lab The Evan Geier-David Goward and Anthony Caruso-Robbie McEachern tickets both have 255 members, but Geier received 250 votes compared with Caruso’s 171 votes. Candidates Nick Hudson and Alli son Sprouse have 117 members. Rees told the Emerald that The facebook is “kind of an innovation,” but it doesn’t replace talking with students on the street. “Our take on it is that the most important thing in an election and for the ASUO in general is having contact with students,” she said. “Facebook’s fun; I like Facebook, but for campaigning we want to make sure we’re actually building a bridge with students and communi cating with students.” Anker-Lagos added that it’s a “great way to gather contact information.” Coy said the Internet phenome non is useful for political cam paigns, but hasn’t had a big effect on the local level. Walsh said Thefacebook can be a Thefacebook | Search j~+~| http://Oregon.thefacebook.com/search.pbp?all_fields-0&do_sea * G. graphy site Apple .Mac Amazon eBay Yahoo! ‘News ▼ * & QD stock.xcbng Xi. sof' f| H|' \ 'JW JL.—Itm* ! quick search go ; My Profile [edit * Mv Friends • My Groups ! My Parties ! 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View Group Join Group View Group Join Group View Gr oup Join Group View Group Join Group View Group Join Group View Group Join Group View Group A V Join Group Courtesy Since it began on Feb. 4,2004, Thefacebook.com has become a popular mode of communication among college students and recently became a tool for ASUO campaigners. great tool to let students know who’s running, but it is “ludicrous” to think that because someone accepts an in vitation to join a group that they will actually vote. The Daniels-Cargni ticket alsc spent $40 for advertising on Theface book, according to financial paper work filed by the candidates. Adver tisements currently cost $13 foi University students and are viewec about 40,000 each day, according tc Thefacebook.com. Daniels said the rationale behind the ads was to encourage students to vote online if they were already on a computer. “It was another attempt to grab the attention of other people who didn’t have their minds made up,” he said. Daniels said he recently sent a message to all his group members urging them to vote for Walsh in the general election this week, noting that Thefacebook “might still affect the election to some extent.” More recently, the “Just say NO to Ashley and Jael” group has attracted 35 members. A group dedicated to EMU wind energy Ballot Measure 21, which re ceived a majority of the primary vote, has 830 fewer members than votes it received. Thefacebook has also provided an outlet for students to continue the tradition of joke candidacies, such as “Mechagodzilla For ASUO Presi dent!,” “ Eric and Gray For asuo Co presidents,” “Doug and Pat For ASUO Exec” and fictional movie characters “Harold and Kumar For asuo Exec.” Students use the groups to express other sentiments as well, such as “I'm Tired of People Begging Me For asuo Exec on Facebook. ” parkerhowell@dailyernerald.com a wi II $i W liere do you wanna go eat? 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