The Associated Students of Madison announced the winners of its Spring 2011 election Wednesday.
Twelve students were elected to represent the College of Letters and Science, six to represent graduate students and five to serve on the Student Services Finance Committee.
Steven Olikara was elected Senior Class president, while Adam Johnson was named vice president and Katie Lorenz was elected both senior class secretary and treasurer. Lorenz will choose between secretary or treasurer, while runner-up and current ASM chair Brandon Williams will take the position she declines.
A referendum supporting the United Council of UW Students, which would require students to pay a refundable fee of $2.00 per semester, passed in the election with more than a 1,000-vote margin. The United Council of UW Students is a group that advocates on behalf of UW System students.
An amendment to the ASM Constitution also passed. The amendment states terms served as first-year representatives will not count toward the three-year term limit. Also, separate term limit totals will be counted for undergraduate or special students and graduate or professional careers.
Voter turnout was 14.7 percent, with 5,924 completed ballots, an increase of 6 percent compared to ASM's fall elections.
In other business at Wednesday's ASM meeting, Johnson and University Affairs Chair Carl Fergus presented legislation in response to an advertisement opposed to the United Council referendum paid for by a group that receives funding from segregated fees.
The legislation would recommend the Student Election Commission change a bylaw to ensure segregated fees are not used for referendum purposes. Under current policy, groups are not allowed to use funds to campaign for their own referenda, however there is no restriction on funding campaigns of which they are not a part.
""These loopholes are a problem in our system and they have been exploited by many, many, many groups on campus,"" Fergus said.
