There are 21 seats that need to be filled in the Student Senate.

Students can vote for Student Senate members today and Tuesday.

Candidates for Student Government run in one of three categories: on-campus, off-campus or at-large, which candidates can live on- or off- campus.

The six on-campus candidates and the nine off-campus candidates are running unopposed and will automatically win re-election.

The at-large race is the only district that is running opposed.

Chris Kromphardt, sophomore double major in political science and philosophy, is looking to oversee Student Senate’s academic goals by filling those roles with “academically-committed individuals.”

“I would research the possibility of extending library hours on Friday and Saturday to at least 8 p.m., so as to be better available to students who need to use it the most.”

Junior communication major Megan Ogulnick wants to educate the students of Eastern on how government and politics affect them.

“By making students aware of the issues and better relating it to their lives, students will be more eager to get involved,” Ogulnick said.

Sarah Shaw, freshman elementary education major, wants to fix problems with parking on-campus and improve campus safety.

“I want to listen to the students and see what matters to them; then proceed with change,” Shaw said.

Like many multiple-choice test given in class, the ballots will be sent to the testing center on-campus and tabulated there.

“It gives us a number of how many people voted for number one, how many people voted for number two,” Chad Quinones graduate assistant in charge of Student Government elections said. “When I get those numbers back, I’ll just see the largest number.”

Like in all elections, voter fraud can be a problem.

In order to avoid fraud, certain steps are taken.

There needs to be some one at every table, while the election is taken place, said Ashlei Birch, student executive director of elections.

“We (the elections commission) will go through the rosters, because each location will have the same rosters.” Quinones said. “.and we’ll go through it just to make sure somebody didn’t vote twice.

“In the past when that happened, what we do is take out both ballots, because that is an illegal form of voting.”

There are rarely problems with someone voting more than once.

Quinones could only recall one time where that happened and that students are usually responsible when voting,

Polling places are located in Carman Hall, the Student Recreation Center, the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and Coleman Hall, Quinones said.

In order to vote, students need to have their Panther Card, said Birch.

Students can vote from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.