Changes in the election process on-campus for Student Government elections are in the future.

After receiving official complaints alleging fraud from independent candidates Tori Frazier and Chris Kromphardt, Ceci Brinker, director of Student Life, considered the complaints and drafted recommendations. She then reviewed them with Ashlei Birch, student executive director of elections, and Chad Quinones, graduate assistant in charge of elections.

According to Brinker, the complaints were valid when it came to staffing the polls.

“There were times the polls were not properly staffed consistently,” Brinker said. “There were times when the polls did not have anyone working.”

Brinker made three recommendations in response to the complaints either involving having another election or seating the candidates with complaints.

The first was to invalidate the fall elections and form a new election. The second was to have a runoff of the candidates within the 10-vote difference.

A runoff election is another election that usually takes place after there is a tie in the vote count.

“We’ve already seated senators, so we’d have to go back and officially ‘unseat’ them,” Brinker said. “There is really nothing in the election commission guidelines, constitution or bylaws that would cover something like that.”

Having another election with the same problematic system would not be a smart idea, she said.

The last option was to offer Frazier and Kromphardt an open seat on Student Senate.

This was the option chosen by Brinker, Birch, Sean Anderson, Jeff Lange and Quinones.

Neither Frazier nor Kromphardt will be taking an opening on Student Senate.

“I felt it was unfair to be offered a guaranteed seat on the Student Senate simply because I’d taken the time to run in the election,” Kromphardt said.

He also said that it was absurd to be offered a seat after contesting the election and that it betrayed his campaign.

Since the election, Frazier has become involved with other organizations.

The Election Reform, a Student Government proposal passed in 2006 which dictates how an election should be run, states that Judicial Affairs should investigate the elections if there is a problem concerning student conduct codes.

This document, however, is inaccurate.

Judicial Affairs is not supposed to play a role in student elections, said Keith Kohanzo, former director of Judicial Affairs.

He reviewed the Student Body Constitution, the Student Senate Bylaws and the Election Commission to come to that decision.

Student Senate Speaker Jeff Lange has said he will be appointing people to review and rewrite the Election Reform.