Victoria University Kampala will tomorrow Thursday, January 12th to Friday 13th January 2023 conduct its virtual guild elections as the institution continues to achieve massive success via its Vclass online module.
The guild contest has attracted five strong and determined candidates including; Dennis Rwothomio, Mulangira Nakibinge, Etomet Gilbert, Serere Eugan and the only courageous lady Carter Jorine Karyn.
Carter Jorine, a 2nd-year law student who is the top favourite to win the race says students believe that the university leadership has tried to solve a couple of issues but she comes with new wine to offer a lot of practical solutions to the prevailing students’ issues and make a tremendous impact to their future under the theme; ”Embrace VU’s Tomorrow, Limitless Possibilities.”
‘’University education is beyond lectures, course work and exams to many of us. It is hope, our future and our dream. All the solutions to the challenges we face are clearly boring within us. All that we require is to think and believe limitlessly, get organized in unshifted, uncompressed, lethal, authentic and above all dedicated leadership,’’ Carter said recently during a presidential debate conducted at VU auditorium.
Virtual Elections
Under the stewardship of the Vice Chancellor, Prof.Lawrence Muganga, Victoria University has since taken its elections online to enable all students conveniently participate from where ever they are.
In 2022, students were introduced to this election digital system that requires them to log into their personal accounts and chose their favourite candidates.
After logging into their accounts, students can vote only once and when their vote is recorded, the voting button is automatically disabled. With this innovation, there’s no room for instances of vote-rigging or electoral malpractice since only registered students can cast their votes.
Prof. Muganga while officiating the module described the voting system as a great milestone in the history of guild leadership in the higher institutions of Uganda;
”For the first time in the history of higher education in this country, we have been able to use an electronic voting system and the contenders were able to count their votes in real-time. They were able to tell whether winning or losing in real-time.”
He noted that the system makes work easy not only for the electoral commission but also for the candidates who will be in their sitting rooms and via their computers keep monitoring the numbers of votes and percentages they have scored.
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