Online voting for the graduate student senate takes place between 8 a.m. today and 5 p.m. tomorrow

Elections to determine next year's GPSC college representatives begin today.

The elections, which will determine the council's representatives from each of the 19 colleges, will run from 8 a.m. today through tomorrow at 5 p.m.

They will be held online for the first year in the history of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

"We're very excited that it's online," said GPSC Elections Director Holly Mandes.

She said she hopes the online elections will make it easier for more graduate students to get involved with GPSC, which represents the approximately 8,000 graduate and professional students at the university.

Each college at the University of Arizona has at least one representative in GPSC.

Many of the candidates are running uncontested this year, Mandes said, so the students in some colleges will not have to vote to determine who their representative will be.

Mandes said this is a change from last year, when no candidate ran uncontested in the representative elections.

She did not have candidate information available, so they were unable to be reached for comment.

The elections for the four top jobs in GPSC will be held in two weeks, Mandes said.

Those elections will determine next year's president, administrative vice president, executive vice president and treasurer.

Graduate students wanting to vote in the representative elections can access the ballots at the GPSC Web site at www.gpsc.arizona.edu or through Student Link.