A majority of nearly 4,000 students who voted in a survey Thursday on the effectiveness of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) said they were not satisfied with it.

"This quite clearly proves that the student community doesn't feel USG is an effective representative of us," USG President Galen Foulke said.

According to the results released Friday, 3,992 students voted, and about 85 percent said they did not feel USG was representing them effectively.

Tomorrow, students will have a second opportunity to vote on the form of their student representation.

The Web site -- votenow.psu.edu -- will open again at 6 a.m. tomorrow and will ask for students to support the proposed University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) to replace USG as the recognized student advocacy group.

Students campaigning for USG said the results of the first referendum may show distaste for USG but do not necessarily support UPUA.

"Even if a majority of students say that USG is ineffective, I think that alone is not enough to say that we need UPUA or to get rid of what we have," USG Senate President Andy Banducci said. "That's going to be the real question."

The Web site had a few problems throughout the day, but Will Kerr, senior research programmer at the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, said the results were personally checked for validity.

Although 132 people attempted to vote twice on Thursday's question, all duplicate votes were dismissed.

Banducci said he had difficulty believing that such a high number of students voted, and he questioned the Web site's dependability. Certain concerns, like the ability for graduate students to vote, may have affected the survey outcome, he said.

He added that tomorrow's results should be more accurate because although students are unsatisfied with USG, he does not think they will support UPUA or the way in which the UPUA has evolved, referring to Student Affairs involvement and closed meetings.

After tomorrow's votes are recorded, UPUA could replace USG as the recognized body of student representation. Foulke said he hopes for results similar to those of Thursday's vote.

Because the UPUA initiative is being run by Students for Real Advocacy, a student organization that is not affiliated with the current government, there is no required amount of student support for it to be implemented.

"It's absolutely subjective," Foulke said. "We're trying to get as much evidence as possible."

Foulke said he intends to bring the final results of the survey to Penn State President Graham Spanier and hopes to receive Spanier's support for UPUA.

Academic Assembly (AA) President Ashley Harris said AA would be one of the groups eliminated from student representation if UPUA goes into effect. She added that she would vote in both referendums.

"Personally, I don't really agree with the proposal," Harris said. "However, AA as a body hasn't really made a decision [about the proposal]."

Harris said she didn't know what to expect from the student votes.