The Associated Students of Madison's Student Judiciary Committee and Student Elections Committee were unable to meet quorum Wednesday to release the results of the 16th session election results.
Voting for student representatives took place April 13-15 with an online ballot on the ASM website. Polls closed at 5 p.m. Wednesday. According to Claire Lempke, member of the ASM Press Office, there was a ""miscommunication"" between the two committees, disallowing the members to meet quorum.
Lempke said Student Elections Commission Chair Katherine Tondrowki was at the Student Activity Center at 5 p.m. Wednesday to review results. She left at 7 p.m. because of prior commitments, at which point there was still not a quorum.
Hannah Karns, ASM vice chair, said at least five justices of eight from the Student Judiciary Committee are required to attend a quorum for results to be released.
According to Lempke, there were at least five justices present throughout the evening, but there were only four present at the same time.
Lempke said members of the committees had legitimate academic reasons for not attending the quorum. According to Carl Fergus, chair of the Student Services Finance Committee, three justices had turned in absence forms ahead of the meeting.
""Most of the justices are involved in other organizations … Coordinating schedules is really difficult,"" Hannah Karns, ASM vice chair, said.
Karns said the SEC chair, Katherine Tondrowski, who attended the meeting, would have tallied the votes had the appropriate number of members attended. After the tally of the votes the Student Judiciary would address election complaints, look over the votes and ratify them. Karns said she did not know if there were any complaints filed.
""It's really important that they take time to look over election complaints,"" she said.
""If they were filed, it's important that they review them with care and that they ensure that the results are valid.""
The Student Judiciary has three days to review the election results, but the situation is expected to be evaluated tomorrow evening, according to Lempke.
—Rory Linnane contributed to this report.
