LEAVEY CENTER– The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) released a statement this week saying that this year’s GUSA presidential campaign will be streamlined by allowing anyone who cares even a little to just vote now.

“Technically the election isn’t until late February,” said GUSA Press Secretary T.J. Potter (COL ’16). “However, this initiative will allow us to skip the majority of the campaigning, as anyone who will give the election any real thought is already working for a campaign.”

“In fact,” added Potter, “we are considering bypassing the election process altogether and just counting the number of staff members on each ticket’s team. Our experts estimate that these numbers should be a good approximation of the actual election results.”

Potter also cited fiscal reasons for condensing the election season.

“Imagine the money we can save with this change,” Potter stated during Tuesday’s press release, “It takes a lot of alcohol to keep people interested in student government.”

A GUSA insider who prefers to remain anonymous told the Heckler that several other options for cutting down the campaign season were suggested as well.

“Many members showed enthusiasm for both the dice-roll and guess-how-many-fingers-I’m-holding-up methods for choosing which candidate wins the executive seat.”

Though the current plan is generally well supported by GUSA team members, some students have voiced opposition to the proposal.

Freshman GUSA Senator Kyle Orwell (COL’18) told the Heckler in an exclusive interview that he believes the new initiative isolates the average student from the campaign process.

“How do we expect GUSA to remain the well-respected, in-touch entity it is today if the average student doesn’t feel like they have a say in who their leaders will be?”

The Heckler attempted to get a comment from a student who was not associated with GUSA but was unable to find one who cared enough about the election to comment.