How to get elected.

Tracking the elections at a Student Union, its strange to see who gets elected. Some candidates aim to get the support of people from their native country while others try to get votes on their ideas but the must successful is to rely on the laziness of the voters.

Candidates can only count on votes by their nationals if there is a majority of people in the international environment are of their native country.

By counting on votes by like minded people, the candidate has to reach every person that may have similar opinions and explain why some ideas are realistic and why some are not of concern, such as decisions that have been passed already and dont need to be worked on during their term. The difficulty with this is that every person will want to hear the changes that will most effect them. It takes time fot the candidate to campaign because of this and it leads to less people being aware of the ideas that are going to happen.

The most effective way of winning a student election seems to be counting on their laziness. Candidates can then count on people not knowing about the changes that are going to happen during their term and promote them as their own. With that many promises that the candidate will defiantly keep, there is then space for empty promises that noone will remember by the end of their term. If a student knows that there will be campus wide wifi installed during his term, he can then promis the voters campus wide wifi and something else (such as a student run store) and when only one of the promises is realized, the voters are still satisfied with the result. This strategy should also rely on people being too lazy to show up to debates or hastings, that way as long as they dont embarrass themselves to the point of becoming a youtube hit. If the voters dont show up to hear how unconfident and incomplete the ideas are, they will vote for the hope of the changes that were promised. 

Count on the laziness of people and claim success over projects that you were not involved with and become a student union president.