However, student voter turnout was less than staggering. In fact, many clerks lamented this year's turnout was the worst they’ve seen in a long while.

Many precincts were completely vacant, only having serviced a handful of student voters all day.

For example, by mid-afternoon and despite several hundreds of students registered to each precinct, the Union had three voters, Brody Complex had five and IM Sports-West had two.

Union precinct chair Cathy Scott even went as far as to say the turnout was the “worst we have ever seen.”

One of the student voters, who wished to remain anonymous because of her position on one of the localized campaigns, spoke on why she feels such a minuscule amount of students exercised their right to vote.

“Historically, students do not turn out,” she said.

She continued by saying the candidates did little to nothing to even campaign to student precincts on election day.

She also said student apathy for localized issues is also certainly a factor.

Precinct chairs at other locations addressed the notion of student apathy as well, saying students should care.

“Students feel that because they don’t live in the East Lansing area, these issues don’t apply to them,” chair of the Brody Complex precinct Kathleen Kiester said.

In reality, she said, it is quite the contrary.

Kiester paid mention to several ordinances, which involved noise, parking and other issues that would pose a direct impact to students. She said it’s a shame students cannot weigh in and vote on these issues.

Kiester said some students had issues with registration and could not vote. 

The Brody Complex poll was also forced to turn students away because they lost their registration to East Lansing voting upon their 21st birthdays.

When an individual turns 21, Kiester said, their voting registration is automatically transferred to their home address on their license.

“Some students felt like their vote was stolen,” she said.