As you all know, election day is coming up soon! CalSERVE community members have put together a progressive voter guide, compiling their research from different sources such as student coalitions, Democratic party recommendations, and the like.

Please take a look at it, research on your own, and get out there and VOTE this Tuesday!

Our guide also includes Berkeley measures and candidates, so please look those over if you are registered in Berkeley.

Find your polling location at www.smartvoter.org.

Download our brief one-page version here, and the full version with explanations here.

And as always, don’t forget to share this page with your friends on Facebook by clicking here.

Thank you to all of the candidates, volunteers, and students who supported our campaigns this year. While we are disappointed not all of our hard-working candidates won seats, we are overjoyed that our executive candidates all won their seats, and that 8 of our candidates will become Senators.

According to unofficial results posted by the Elections Council, next year’s executives will be CalSERVE’s Roxanne Winston for President, Dionne Jirachaikitti for External VP, Krystle Pasco for Executive VP, and Carlo de la Cruz for Academic VP.

CalSERVE senators will be Mary June Flores, Lyell Sakaue, Kifah Shah, Obiamaka Ude, Stephanie Yang, Oscar Mairena, Claudia Rodriguez, and Lisa Tran.

Last year, six CalSERVE candidates were elected to Senate, and three won executive positions. Just two years ago, CalSERVE ran no executive candidates and only had four seats in the Senate.

Congratulations to all winning candidates from all parties, as well as to all candidates who invested their time and energy into campaigning but did not secure seats. We look forward to an exciting year.

It’s an unfortunate reality of print campaigns that an entire platform is supposed to fit on a small flyer or in a single sentence quotation in the Daily Cal. However, technology has made it much easier for elected representatives to communicate with the public at large. Our new website reflects our commitment to being transparent with the student body about our beliefs, platform, and attitudes.

We hope that our new website will convey CalSERVE’s purpose and mission of pro-actively standing up for students in the ASUC. We’ve compiled a composite of the overarching themes and issues that we as students must deal with, and which CalSERVE members and supporters are dedicated to working on. Details about all of our candidates and ways to support them can be found on their individual pages.

We are proud to deliver a comprehensive and solid platform to the student body via our website, and we promise that our website will follow the same pattern of all our campus activities: we will continue to work on it throughout the year, as circumstances change, even once election season is over.