Stateun Must holds its own mock elections

By CONG B. CORRALES
Associate Editor

THE stateun Mindanao University of Science and Technology (Must) yesterday held its mock elections but unlike Xavier University’s mock polls last week, it made a louder buzz because politicians treated it like it’s the real thing.

Politicians and their supporters flooded the state university’s Facebook page with a deluge of “conscience posts,” and the campus was strewn with campaign flyers.

The Facebook page of the state university currently has some 27,128 members.

Nef Luczon, who teaches communication courses at Must, expressed his disapproval of what some politicians were doing in a post on his Facebook wall.

“Political flyers can be seen just a few meters away from the voting area in the mock elections of Mindanao University of Science & Technology organized by the Supreme Student Council,” reads Luczon’s post.

The state university’s mock polls is unlike Xavier University’s in that Must held two sets of polling. One was online, and the other one was through manual counting of ballots.

Luczon said all of the polling precincts were scheduled to be closed at 8 pm.

“The results will be disclosed as soon as the tabulation of votes will be finished. The math department is in-charge for ballot validation,” Luczon said.

The mock polls is organized and headed by Must’s Supreme Student Council and the Junior Photographers’ Guild.

Earlier yesterday, Must students were greeted with a string of memes and text posts calling on them to recall who was the biggest benefactor of the university.