The elections commission held a meeting last night for a record 38 freshmen who are registered to run for 11 first-year undergraduate Student Senate seats, according to Student Body President Will Quick. Three graduate students are also running for two seats.

According to Quick, the elections are on schedule, even though four of the eight elections commission spots are still open.

“Right now things are on ‘go,'” he said. “We are making sure everything works just fine on the technical side.”

Quick said the elections commission consists of Megan Peters, committee chair and a sophomore in English, Brittany Prater, a sophomore in political science, Brannon Foster, a junior in technology education, Mary Clare Bracey, a junior in textile and apparel management, and Sean McGrath, a senior in psychology.

Quick said he wasn’t sure if Prater or Bracey would continue to serve on the commission.

Bracey said she didn’t really know anything about the commission.

“We haven’t been notified or anything this semester — we haven’t had a meeting at all since last semester,” she said, adding that she preferred not to comment on whether she would continue to serve on the commission.

McGrath has not been confirmed, Quick said, because there hasn’t been a Senate meeting.

“There really wasn’t any chance for them to confirm [McGrath],” he said, indicating that anyone he does appoint who is not confirmed will help with the election but will not be able to sit in on the hearings.

The elections commission doesn’t have the nine members needed, consisting of one chair and eight commissioners. Quick said former Student Body President Whil Piavis was responsible for appointing four of the commissioners; two resigned because of commitments to other parts of Student Government and one graduated.

The other four commissioners are appointed by Quick, according to the Student Government statutes.

“I’m on track now,” he said. “I’ve made the one [appointment] already, I have three more to make.”

He said he is trying to make up for the three positions that Piavis’ appointee left open.

“I guess overall Student Government is kind of behind in getting people in,” he said. “The timeline didn’t work out between executive appointments and the Senate confirmation process.”

If Prater or Bracey resign, he said, that would leave the commission with only two confirmed members.

“I haven’t had any indication that anybody’s going to drop,” he said.

Tyler Schweitzer, a graduate student in nuclear engineering, who is running for a senate seat, said he doesn’t think the commission will have a problem with fall elections.

“I feel confident that they will enforce all the rules and regulations,” he said.

Quick added fall elections aren’t as difficult as spring elections.

“Obviously these are first-year students. We don’t tend to see the level of violations that we see in the spring elections,” he said, adding that most freshmen candidates don’t break rules after a warning. “Why they do it in spring elections, I don’t know.”