The SG legislative elections have been extended until Thursday at 11:59 p.m., according to an email sent to all students last night at 2:05 a.m.

The email cites “technical difficulties” as the reason for the extension. Supervisor of Elections Adam Ferrando says prior to the elections, the Registrar’s Office complied all the names of students eligible to vote and gave them to Information Resource Management (IRM). However, any username less than eight characters was given random numbers after it, which changed the log on information and stopped access.

Ferrando says voters had the opportunity to call their campus’ SG advisor or go have their vote cast manually. However, he wouldn’t comment on the extension of the election – prior to this being posted.

However, not everyone is happy with the election commission’s decision like Trevor Raborn, Advocacy house candidate, who says, “This election is very chaotic, there’s probably been about eight to 25 election violations so far.”

“When you don’t have continuity, there can be flaws like voter fraud and misrepresentation,” Raborn concludes.

Advocacy house candidate, Chris Mack, who was unable to vote when the polls first opened, points to poor planning, that he says is “so extremely poor it’s hurting the election process.”

Mack says that according to the Election Statutes, a sample ballot should be provided 24 hours prior to the election and should be the same as the actual ballot. Also, he points to statutes that state the elections must take place on a Tuesday and Wednesday in the fall.

However, Mack explains, “The reason the elections are so messed up is because of Terry Mena [Associate Dean of Student Affairs] … he doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

Kevin Cho Tipton, Advocacy candidate, says, “Truthfully, I don’t like what’s happened in the past three days – leadership from both sides isn’t very happy, some say its illegal.”

Many candidates have expressed that they will be making election complaints and contestations but an actual number won’t be available until 5 p.m. Friday, according to statutes.

But as Tipton says, “Adam Ferrando [Supervisor of Elections] has done everything he could do, I think he’s doing a good job.”