Students will vote today and Thursday for Student Association president, vice president and treasurer after low-intensity campaigning—or no campaigning—by all candidates.

Students can cast their ballots at DuSable Hall or the Pow Wow Room in the Holmes Student Center from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A valid student ID card will be required to vote.

However, deciding whom to pick for president might be a difficult choice after a nearly conflict-free presidential campaign between candidates Preston Came and Kelly Marie McDonald.

Compared to last year’s executive elections when there were charges of mudslinging, Came and McDonald ran tame campaigns.

The publicity from the wild campaigns last year led a record 3,783 voters, 15 percent of the students, to the ballot boxes.

But SA President Pro Tem David Ivers, who runs the SA Senate meetings and was a senator last year, said a high turnout probably will not happen this year.

Last year’s presidential candidates, current SA President Robert McCormack and former Senate Speaker John Fallon, “were so much alike that they had to work to differentiate themselves,” Ivers said.

“This time you have two pretty good candidates who are appealing to two different voting blocs,” Ivers said.

“Preston (Came) I would have to say is more a status quo candidate and Kelly (McDonald) is an activist or an agitator,” he said. “They do not need to establish a position, it is just there.”

Ivers also said having the unopposed candidates for treasurer and vice president this year probably reduced public exposure for the elections.

Came said he mainly has relied on endorsements to get his votes.

“There has been a unanimity (of pro-Came endorsements) among the campus organizations. I think that is one of the reasons we are not having that much controversy,” Came said.

McDonald said she did not campaign to many student organizations because she was working on projects now.

“The fact is not that I did not want to make the time to contact people,” McDonald said. “It is just that the issues I am working on are very important to me.”

But “it was definitely my fault that certain groups have not been reached,” she said.