After a protracted and confusing series of mishaps that delayed elections for two days last week, voting in the 2002 Undergraduate Council general elections finally ended on Saturday at noon.

But the results of the elections will likely go beyond just the new roster of members, as the council grapples with questions about electoral procedures and timing.

Some members have even indicated that the commotion surrounding this fall’s elections may precipitate changes to the council’s rules.

The council announced the official results on Saturday afternoon, and the top three vote-getters from each House and first-year district, as well as the top candidate from Dudley House, received seats on the council.

In most Houses, incumbents running for reelection were successful in their bids. In fact, Rohit Chopra ’04, chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee, garnered 100 first-place votes in his successful reelection bid in Adams House—the most number-one ballots of any candidate in this fall’s elections.

“I didn’t poster. I didn’t really go door-to-door,” he said. “I just made sure that I let my friends know I was running.”

Even so, he surpassed the candidate with the next-most first-place votes—Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, of the North Yard, who received 75 number-one nods.

At the other end of the spectrum, Dudley House elected Ari Z. Weisbard ’02 with only four votes, and Joshua A. Barro ’05 will join the council as a representative from Adams House despite receiving only nine first-place votes.

Though incumbents usually fare well, some of last year’s council members lost their bids for reelection, including Gregory R. Friedman ’04, former chair of the council’s Finance Committee.

“I campaigned the same as I did last year,” he said. “Leverett was just much more competitive this year.”

Turnout Down-turn

Despite the numerous delays in getting the elections started, council leaders said as voting got underway last Friday that they hoped to settle on a system that would actually increase voter turnout.

The council sent students personalized e-mails with links to a non-Harvard website where they could vote.

“We’re very curious about how this will affect voter turnout,” council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 said last week after the e-mail voting system was repeatedly delayed by technological problems and administrative concerns regarding the security of sensitive registrar’s information.