Four separate allegations of election violations were brought against the two tickets running for junior class council, Marcelo Perez, vice president of the Judicial Council Elections Committee, announced after a one-and-a-half hour meeting of the Executive Committee of Judicial Council ended at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Neither ticket was disqualified, and a run-off election will take place Thursday because neither ticket garnered more than 50 percent of the vote necessary to claim a majority.
Both tickets were accused of the same violation, according to Perez, but neither was found guilty of that particular violation.
The ticket of Kevin Kimberly, Alexa Doyle, Dylan Fernandez and Rachel Roseberry had two additional allegations brought against them, and was found guilty of both violations, Perez said.
The allegations caused two special sessions of the Executive Committee of Judicial Council, one at 7 a.m. Monday, and another at 11:30 p.m. Monday.
Of the 1292 votes cast in the race, 120 voted to abstain, 511 voted for the ticket led by Kimberly, and 611 voted for the Caitlin Pulte, Henry Shine, Luke Stavole and Tim Castellini ticket.
The Pulte ticket received 47.3 percent of the vote, and the Kimberly ticket received 39.5 percent of the vote. The remaining votes were cast to abstain.
Perez said because the Kimberly ticket was found guilty of two election violations, the Executive Committee delivered a sanction against the ticket. Kimberly and his running mates will not be allowed to spend any remaining campaign money between now and the run-off. All tickets are restricted to spending $75, which is provided for the election.
Perez said the sanction also included restriction of additional campaigning to word of mouth and the social networking Web site Facebook.com, where the ticket has a group page titled "Kimberly-Doyle-Roseberry-Fernandez for Junior Class Council."
Perez said the ticket would not be allowed to use any other methods of online campaigning. Existing posters can remain posted, he said.
Perez told The Observer he was not aware if the ticket had funds leftover.
Perez said he could not reveal the nature of any of the violations or allegations, nor could he reveal who brought the allegations, according to guidelines set forth in the Student Constitution.
Additionally, Judicial Council president George Chamberlain said the information couldn't be released in order to protect the candidates.
"It's important that we protect the integrity of the candidates," he said. Revealing the nature of the violations or allegations could further damage the campaigns, he added.
The tickets were e-mailed of the decisions of the Executive Committee shortly after 1 a.m. The results of the election - which were sealed until the allegations were resolved - were then unsealed.
Perez e-mailed the results of the election to the tickets around 1:30 a.m. and notified them that the run-off would take place Thursday.
The run-off election will take place Thursday online from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Students will be notified of election procedures via e-mail.
