Although the Student Government elections results were announced early Thursday morning, the Gator Party and the Orange and Blue Party kept battling until late Thursday night.
The Student Elections Commission reviewed 10 complaints as of 9:30 p.m. as part of a two-day review of more than 30 election complaints filed by both parties against each other. Thursday's hearing would last until about 11 p.m., commission Chairman Patrick Jackson said.
The commission found Orange and Blue Party members guilty of violations in five complaints. They received three warnings, two public reprimands and one $5 fine.
The commission will meet again today at noon to finish reviewing the complaints, including those filed against the Gator Party.
Sam Miorelli, a mechanical engineering junior and Orange and Blue Party president, said the party filed about five complaints against the Gator Party.
Ryan Day, SG deputy chief of staff and a Gator Party volunteer, has filed 34 complaints since Monday. Most of them were against the Orange and Blue Party, and six concerned referendum advertisements. Day withdrew three complaints before the commission began its review. Several hours into deliberations, Day withdrew another.
Sarah Krantz, SG's supervisor of elections, confirmed that 8,129 students voted in spring SG elections and that no absentee ballots were cast.
Krantz added that a hand count for Student Senate engineering seats on Thursday morning confirmed a split ticket. Engineering seats went to Christie Lee of the Orange and Blue Party and Diego Soto of the Gator Party.
