A special election for an Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat in a student-populated single-member district may be held in the spring as a result of ANC Commissioner Jason Hurdle’s resignation this month.

The official announcement of Hurdle’s resignation will be printed in the D.C. Register today. His district, 2E02, is composed of Henle Village and Darnall Hall as well as parts of Georgetown between Volta Place, R Street, Q Street and Reservoir Road.

As the only student commissioner on the ANC, Mike Glick (COL ’05) has expressed his desire to have another student on commission. But he also said that having another resident elected to the seat would not be “the end of the world.”

“The key, I believe, is to elect someone who is reasonable and open to student concerns and understanding of university issues,” Glick said. “It’s hard to say exactly what those issues are going to be for the rest of the year, but inevitably students and the university will need a voice of support from time to time.”

Though he believes a student would be more representative of the concerns of the student body, Glick feels that a resident would be able to give students a voice in the community as well.

Campaign Georgetown, a student rights advocacy group that has run large-scale registration and information efforts in the past, hopes to use its resources and experience to help elect a student to the commission. Leaders of the organization are currently in the process of locating a suitable candidate.

“Given the logistical and demographic constraints imposed on the prospective candidate, Campaign Georgetown is having some difficulty locating a student both interested in running and able to do so,” Matthew Ingham (COL ’04), co-chair of Campaign Georgetown, said.

In the 2002 election for the position, GUSA Vice President-elect Eric Lashner (COL ’05) fell victim to low student turnout when he lost to Hurdle. Each received 36 and 49 percent of the vote, respectively.

Registering students to vote in the District has been difficult in the past.

Students who decide to change their voter registration from their home state to Washington, D.C., would no longer be able to vote for a governor or senators since these offices do not exist in the District of Columbia.

Students are especially reluctant to make the change in a presidential election year.

“This is going to be a very difficult seat [for a student] to win given the structure and timing of the election, and the potential candidate any student might face,” Glick said.

A student who wishes to run for the seat would have to currently live in Henle or Darnall, and be willing to live there next year as well as part of the summer. Also, the student would have to be a freshman because ANC Commissioners must be able to serve two years beginning next January.

The petition period for the seat is from March 1-22. Potential candidates must receive signatures from 30 registered voters in the District.

If there is more than one candidate vying for the seat, a special election will be held at a public meeting for the ANC at a later date to be determined by ANC Chair Tom Birch.