2024 Ballot Measures
All Ballot Measures must be submitted by Friday, March 8th, 2024 at 5:00 PM. Please submit ballot measure applications to the Judicial Committee/SAO via the Microsoft Form on our Filing page by this date for processing. Petition signatures must be submitted to cmcoop@uw.edu by Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 for validation by the Office of the Registrar.
You can add your statement in support or opposition to one of the measures below by filing as a Ballot Measure Advocate!
Ballot Measure A
Question
Do you support a $5 quarterly voluntary donation option on STAR to fund Washington Student Public Interest Research (WashPIRG), a Registered Student Organization? WashPIRG is a statewide, student-run organization that works on issues such as voter registration, 100% clean electricity, affordable healthcare, plastic pollution, saving the orcas, hunger relief, and the cost of textbooks.
Classification
Initiative (Binding)
Method
Petition certified by Board Bill 4.16: An Act to Approve WashPIRG Ballot Measure; Passed February 20, 2025
Pro-Statement 1: Julia Santamaria
Preliminary Spending: $40.00
Do you support a $5 quarterly voluntary donation option on STAR to fund Washington Student Public Interest Research (WashPIRG), a Registered Student Organization? WashPIRG started organizing in 1974, and is a statewide, student-run organization that works on issues such as nonpartisan voter registration, 100% clean electricity, affordable healthcare, plastic pollution, saving the orcas, hunger relief, and the cost of textbooks.
Con-Statement 1: Judicial Committee
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
Pro-Statement 2: None
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
Con-Statement 2: None
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
Ballot Measure B
Question
Do you approve the 2025 ASUW Proposal Constitution, as submitted by the Board of Directors and available for review at vote.asuw.org/initiatives?
Classification
Referendum (Binding)
Method
Referendum certified by Board Bill 4.18: An Act to Propose an Amendment to the ASUW Constitution in the General Election; Passed March 18, 2025
Pro-Statement 1: Judicial Committee
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
Con-Statement 1: Jacob Gannon
Preliminary Spending: None
The new proposal constitution should not be adopted because it does little to improve the governance structure of the ASUW but much to hastily revert the changes adopted by students last year. Before voting on this proposal, you should understand the alternative. Voting NO would maintain the approved 2024 Proposal Constitution which places greater checks and balances on the Board of Directors by bolstering the independence of ASUW’s legislative branch and judiciary (Student Senate and the Judicial Committee). Maintaining the 2024 proposal would also enshrine the rights and responsibilities of students to participate in our Association, better outline a fair process for a constitutional convention for amendments like this, and remove power over elections from the control of current Board members. Finally, while both constitutions would give a voting seat to the Student Senate, only the 2024 proposal received oversight from the Senate through a lengthy public comment period and an advisory vote with overwhelming approval.
For these reasons, VOTE NO on Ballot Measure B to maintain the version approved last year!
Pro-Statement 2: None
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
Con-Statement 2: None
Preliminary Spending: None
[None submitted]
