The Board of Elections opted to reopen voting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Student Government elections following Tuesday’s internet outage, citing concerns about student’s inability to access voting materials and the ballot. The extended voting period aims to remedy the approximately nine hours that the outage interfered with voting.

Voting closed at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday evening. Joseph Attanucci, chair of the Board of Elections, stated the board was unable to convene earlier due to the required 24-hour public notice period for meetings. 

The elections reveal, originally scheduled for Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m., was moved to 9 p.m. Thursday evening, following the certification process.  

Any potential runoff election would occur Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a reveal of results at 9 p.m.

Due to the recent disqualification and upcoming appeal hearing for student body president and vice president candidates Taquan Dewberry and Ava Butler, results for the student body president race will not be announced during the election reveal.

The Board of Elections will not decide what course of action to take regarding the student body president election until after Dewberry and Butler’s appeal hearing before the Special Review Committee, occurring Thursday at 9:30 p.m. 

Attanucci said the Board of Elections will decide what course of action to take following the Special Review Committee’s decision.

“Currently, the decision is just pending what SRC decides. We will fully implement what they decide,” Attanucci said. 

The board also decided  against hearing a complaint building on a formerly dismissed complaint from the Trask campaign against Dewberry and Butler, regarding distribution of energy drinks and items exceeding a $1 symbolic limit, as Trask sought to present new evidence. 

The group cited Trask’s failure to file an appeal before the deadline and the elections handbook’s prohibition on “double jeopardy,” or hearing complaints that deal with similar facts twice.