The candidates for Undergraduate Student Graduate president and vice president are counting on their campaign staffs to get the vote out for them tomorrow.

A ticket has a much better chance of winning if it has a good staff working for it, said USG Vice President Merryl Werber.

"We wouldn't have won without the people who worked with us," Werber said.

Candidates use their campaign staffers to meet with student groups, talk to individual students and hand out fliers at polling places on election day.

"You've got to get the voters there," said Rick Schmidt, chief of staff for Rich Schaffer and Chris Groton.

Schaffer's staff plans to have someone outside of each polling place on election day handing out fliers and discussing the issues, said Mike DeThomas, Schaffer's campaign manager.

In addition to fliers, candidates also rely on their staff members to get to meetings they can't attend and prepare them for debates, USG presidential candidate Jim Ryerson said.

Ryerson and running mate Candice Anderson met with their staff before each debate and had the staffers ask them possible questions and evaluate their performance, Anderson said.

Ryerson's and Anderson's campaign is basically run by four people -- the candidates themselves, campaign manager Kevin Mammel and staff coordinator Mike Gillespie -- but with a lot of help from many other people, Ryerson said.

"We have a real diverse staff," Ryerson added.

On election day, Mammel said he plans to visit fraternities on behalf of Ryerson and Anderson to encourage members to get out and vote. Other staffers will be at polling places to talk to voters, he said.

One of USG presidential candidate Rob Kampia's campaign managers, Kelly Glazier, did a lot more than just organize his campaign -- she tricked him into running.

Kampia said he told Glazier he wanted a liberal ticket to run in this year's election, so she agreed to be his running mate if he would enter the race. Glazier then backed out on him but made him keep running, Kampia said.

Glazier said she doesn't remember tricking Kampia and thinks they were both drunk at the time, but she stayed on as Kampia's campaign manager.

Many of Kampia's staffers go to bars to talk to people about the campaign, Kampia said, adding that people are more receptive in bars than if approached in the HUB as they eat or study.

Kampia staffers plan to call the 900 students who signed his petition and members of other groups who support him to remind them to vote, Kampia said.