General Notices

The Virtual Guild Elections 2021 takes place tomorrow, Friday, March 19 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EC.

All students eligible to vote will receive an invitation notification from the virtual election platform “Election Buddy” via their student email. Each student will be assigned a unique access key which can only be used to vote once as only one ballot will be issued per voter. All votes will be anonymous and confidential.

N.B: If you forward or reply to the notification email to vote, your vote will not be registered.

Ballots:

Ballots will be assigned according to Faculty, with your specific student registration status and the respective nominated Faculty representative who you will be able to vote for. For example, only a part time and evening student will be allowed to vote for the Part-time and Evening Representative and only a student belonging to the Faculty of Social Sciences will be allowed to vote for the Faculty of Social Sciences representative.

All other designations, namely President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Committee Chairpersons will be able to receive votes from all students regardless of Faculty, student status or designation.

How to Vote

It’s easy! Using a computer, cellphone or other smart device: -

• Students are to use their Election Buddy Notice to access their assigned ballot using their Voting key. This Voting key is randomly generated to ensure integrity.
• Click the randomly generated voting key link, view the ballot, and vote accordingly.
• Voters reserve the right to vote for one or all eligible positions on the ballot paper.
• In instances where there is only one candidate for any particular portfolio, voters reserve the right to issue a vote of either “Confidence”, No confidence” or “Abstain”.
• In instances where there are two candidates for any particular portfolio, voters reserve the right to issue a vote for “Candidate 1”, Candidate 2” or to “Abstain”.
• Voters will then be allowed to review their choices and submit.
• Upon successful completion of voting, the student will receive a Confirmation Notice, indicating that the selected choices have been registered and the student will be provided with a verification code.

Results

At 8 p.m. EC on Friday March 19, voting will close, and results will be automatically tabulated and published within twenty-four (24) hours of the closing of the poll. For this virtual exercise, results will be published to the Guild of Students’ Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Please feel free to email your queries to guildelection@my.uwi.edu using your student email.