After the polls closed Thursday, it was a computer screen that said Adam Dondro was the new AS president at Chico State University.

It also said students approved a $26 per semester fee hike to cover revenue lost to declining enrollment.

The nearly all-Internet election had voters logging on to a Web site to enter their choices. But there were a few exceptions, according to Rick Rees, associate director of student activities, including absentee ballots or those students who had trouble accessing the system.

Those voters used paper ballots. Rees said there were a few dozen of those. Many of them appeared to be graduate students who were also university employees. Paper ballots had to be added to computerized results accessed by two student elections officials, which netted unofficial results just after 8 p.m., three hours after the 5 p.m. poll closure. For results to be official, they have to be approved by the university president.

Despite the convenience of an online election, only 21.2 percent of students voted a total of 3,218 votes.

The unofficial results show Dondro bested candidate Bob Ray solidly with 60.71 percent of the vote to Ray's 38.25 percent.

Both presidential candidates had Web sites that contained information and their online candidate statements. Ray's site www.nametheparade.com focused on the Pioneer Days parade. His home page didn't mention his AS candidacy.

Dondro's site www.dondro4president.com was all about the office and emphasized his qualifications goals, and offered a link to the site where students actually vote.

Dondro, a 22-year-old Auburn native majoring in psychology and political science, is the current AS executive vice president. He anticipates graduating in 2005. Dondro said things "have not gone great" with the Halloween situation, though the city was happy with the safety level. But students were in a good position to improve things so "students can have a good time."

Dondro's statement stressed his experience and the importance of building relationships with the university and community and the importance of representing the image of the AS.

Ray, who is reportedly in his 30s but refused to disclose his age, has a history of local community involvement. He has been attending Chico State "on and off" for a decade and is a graduate student in political science.

The first sentence of his Chico State Web site candidate statement said he wants to bring Pioneer Days parade back, and had already started working on that idea.

He also criticized the current Halloween situation as a "police state" and said he is often the only student at City Council meetings. Ray suggested Halloween feature a major band play at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds on that day, moving the event away from downtown, and offering a space where student organizations could have fund-raising booths.

There were also two advisory measures on the ballot. Students approved them both. One raises student fees by $26 a semester to make up for revenue lost due to declining enrollment. That won with 66.76 percent of the vote.

The other asked if students would deny parking permits to students living within a mile of campus. An addendum asked if Associated Students officers should urge the city to increase bus service in that area. Both those measures also passed solidly.The first, Measure A, was approved by 70.38 percent of the voters. Measure B, the request to the city, passed by 84.86 percent.

That means the Associated Students will present this information to the university to change its parking permit policy, and to the city as well.

"Where that goes depends on the university and city," Rees said.

Because neither candidate in the race for executive vice president Thomas Whitcher, Jonathan Maples and Sidney Portiz reached the required level of 50 percent of the vote plus one, another election will be held Wednesday on just that issue.