Hussain wins by 10 votes
By THOMAS HALLECK AND SIOBHAN COUNIHAN AND ROBERT PAPE | Mar. 31, 2006In an election that brought out over 2,300 voters and more candidates than any recent Student Association contest has seen, UB Advocates president and vice president candidates Viqar Hussain and Leslie Meister won their respective positions by only 10 votes on Thursday.Beating out the Progress party's Greg Stern and Marquis Whitmore, respectively, for the top to SA positions, the UB Advocates also took three of the four SUNY delegate positions this week, with party members Christopher Mendoza, Eliot Sherman and Melody Mercedes all winning seats on the Student Assembly.Progress's treasurer candidate Peter Grollitsch and delegate candidate Rob Mercurio also won seats in next year's government, keeping the UB Advocates from a sweep like that of Elevation '05 last year.A total of 2,347 students voted, up by 770 voters from last year's turnout in the three-day election held in the Student Union.
