“It’s not really right for voting because I have no way of knowing if my vote is being counted or being registered,” he said. “This is why we have things like unbiased election commissions.”

Corwin S. Sullivan, a student of paleontology at GSAS, said that he abstained from voting on the second statement because he found it difficult to voice his support for Summers’ right to free speech while simultaneously condemning his management style.

“What the poll didn’t capture was that there are different reasons for being dissatisfied with President Summers,” he said.

Only 1,543 of the approximately 3,500 GSAS students turned out for the poll, Trodd said. But she speculated that the low figure may suggest that students are dissatisfied with what questions the FAS community is asking.

“One answer is possibly...students are telling the faculty, ‘Talk about this differently please,’“ Trodd said.

Trodd added she was hoping to invite Summers to meet with the GSC in the near future.

“I really do hope that the administration and faculty do take this vote into account as they continue to discuss the future of Harvard and where we go from here,” she said.

—Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu.