The Student Government registered less students to vote than they have hoped for during last week’s voter drive.

The drive, which was organized by the Student Government, University Democrats and the Green Party was held to register the campus to vote in the November elections.

The drive registered 300 to 400 students, said Marty Ruhaak, student vice president for public affairs, but student government plans to continue the drive this week by meeting with larger Recognized Student Organizations such as the campus fraternities and sororities.

Student senators were deputized at an earlier Student Senate meeting, allowing them to register the RSO’s this week and voters at the drive last week.

The drive set up registration tables in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and in Carman Hall, and the table in the union was unavailable yesterday because of election for homecoming officials, Ruhaak said.

“I’m not satisfied with it (voter drive). I wanted closer to 1,000 people,” he said. “We realized we didn’t reach our goals, so we decided to keep going.”

He said the drive registered around 300 Thursday, while only around 50 registered Friday because Parents Weekend started Friday and the amount of traffic in Carman Hall and the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union was the same.

“We caught the same crowd (registering Thursday), as we did on Friday,” Ruhaak said.

He said many who registered were already registered in their home precinct, but registration does not ensure students will vote, such as in last year’s Charleston mayoral election.

“Three students voted and just a couple thousand from the community voted,” Ruhaak said. “Usually the amount is 50 percent of people that register to vote actually vote.”

Interim President Lou Hencken asked the student senate to aid in getting several thousand students registered to vote in the upcoming election.

Hencken pushed for the Student Government involvement with the issue in a report from the President’s Council at the Sept. 11 senate meeting.

Ruhaak said Student Government will stop registering Oct. 6 because the deadline date to participate in the November elections is Oct. 8.

The Student Government plans to organize another campaign closer to the election date to promote voter participation, Ruhaak said.