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Our team does elections in the spring also. We found it is helpful to have student leadership throuhout the spring & summer months when we are still very active. A few years back we put in a voting process that allows all members that have been part of the team throughout the build season to cast a vote, students who have just joined do not vote. Outgoing seniors vote toward the mentor vote. The mentor vote is only used if there is a tie in the student voting. Each ballot is marked with an M(mentor) or an S(student). It has been interesting to see that the voting has been fairly similar between the mentors and students. Most elections have had the same elected person result but a different percentage of votes for candidates.

We only allow students that have been through a build season to vote because many years ago we had a student bring a bunch of his friends to that meeting that were going to join the team just so he could get votes. Most of the students that he brought didn't stay with the team but voted for him.