The document summarizes student elections at Makerere University in Uganda. It describes how the environment during elections is tense and confusing as candidates make promises to students. On election days, candidates and their supporters actively campaign by asking for votes and putting up posters. Some candidates fear losing and excessively campaign to get votes. The electoral commission oversees the polling stations and ballot boxes. Students vote and at the end, the winning candidate and their supporters celebrate.
7. On the eve of voting
all the contesting
candidates and their
supporters wander
around asking for
votes.
8. On the day of voting
they keep around the
polling stations
tirelessly asking for
votes.
10. Other candidates due
to fear of losing, keep
giving students their
posters while they
hang others on trees,
pin on dustbins and
on building walls.
11. Some of the
contesting candidates
keep calling their
friends to come and
vote for them.
15. Some students can be expecting their new leaders
to work hand in hand with them and to handle all
issues that the out going leaders have not worked
on.