“Yesterday, it was raining,” physics professor Doug Brandt said about Tuesday.

Brandt, chair of the Faculty Senate elections committee, attributed the rain on top of the election date to a voting turnout of about 100 the first day of faculty elections.

Elections of faculty to committees or councils continued Wednesday. The final number of those who voted was 218 out of 450 to 480 eligible.

Tenure or tenure-track faculty and department chairs were eligible to vote.

Tuesday is traditionally a day for low turnout in elections, Brandt said.

The election results must be reviewed next Tuesday by the senate before being announced to the university community, he said.

A mixture of both faculty and chairs voted, said associate chemistry professor Barbara Lawrence.

“And it looked likes a pretty broad range of colleges as well (that voted),” she said.

About the same number made it to the polls last faculty election, said Reed Benedict, associate sociology professor and Faculty Senate member.

The election will change membership for 11 committees – such as the Council on University Planning and Budget and Enrollment Management Advisory Committee.

Membership was contested on the senate, Council on Academic Affairs, Academic Program Elimination Review Committee, Council on Graduate Studies and the Council on Faculty Research.

Five faculty will be selected at large to the senate and three to the CAA. One position is open for each section of the other contested councils.

Faculty Senate coordinated the elections. Those nominated to the senate include: English professor John Allison; assistant political science professor Jeff Ashley; math professor Leo Comerford; associate biology professor Bud Fischer; associate recreation

administration professor John Henry Pommier and John Stimac, assistant geology and geography professor.