Campaigning for the Georgia Southern University Student Government Association elections will begin this Friday, with the voting window to take place from Feb. 26-29.

Biographic information for each candidate will be available on the SGA website when campaigning begins, culminating in a debate on Feb. 28.

SGA serves as the face of the GSU student body to both the administration and those outside of the university. We highly encourage all students to put their vote in. The ballot is accessible by logging into WINGS.

The outcome of this election will directly impact GSU for the coming academic year, and the best results will only result from full participation.

We also want SGA to ensure that this election is as fair as possible. It needs to go smoother than last year, when there was contention over the ballot labels. One candidate had all other candidates running on his ticket properly labeled as such. The other candidate’s ticket was not similarly labeled.

If the student body is to be represented by these elected officials, then the election needs to be as fair and open as possible, with votes from as many students as possible.