The scene was one of utter chaos as members of special-fee groups, class presidential slates, executive office slates and senatorial candidates eagerly awaited the results of this year’s ASSU elections. Drinks were chugged, a table was broken and general rowdiness dominated as many waited from even before midnight, when voting ended, until 1:30 a.m., when the results were finally released.

The crowd began to gather at about 11:50 p.m. in a meeting room on the second floor of Tresidder. Soon, the Stanford Chapparal arrived with members armed with bullhorns, stuffed animals, banners and signs, including one reading, “We own the moon.” As the night wore on, ASSU vice presidential candidate Charlie Stockman led the crowd in a variety of cheers.

At roughly 1 a.m., outgoing ASSU President Mónica Henestroza announced that, after spending a few minutes trying to quiet the noisy crowd, results would take another 20 minutes. Henestroza was interrupted several times by hecklers who told her to simply announce who had won.

A majority of the people in the room were visibly intoxicated with handles of Bacardi rum and Smirnoff Ice floating freely. An apparently inebriated girl jumped onto and broke one of the tables of the meeting room.

The results were then read at 1:30 a.m. by Henestroza, GSC Chair Grace Chang, a medical student, Elections Commissioner Eleanor Williams, a junior, and Assistant Elections Commissioner Alida Garcia, a sophomore.

Garcia said that the time between elections was occupied by double-checking results, manually verifying special fees yes and no percentages against the number of students voting for the special-fee groups and checking votes to ensure validity. Senator Hiro Iwonaga, a senior, who designed the elections Web site, noted that the amount of time taken to release results was roughly standard for ASSU elections.

For Undergraduate Senate, Josh Shipp, one of two incumbents running, received the most votes at 1,244. For the Graduate Student Council, only 13 representatives for a possible 15 seats were elected as there were no candidates from the Law School and the humanities departments within the School of Humanities and Sciences.

For class presidents, ‘06 Pack won sophomore class, Juniorosity won the junior class race and Fire It Up won the senior class presidency.

However, some groups have already unofficially expressed concern with the fairness of election procedures, alleging that some juniors were unable to vote for senior class president slates because they encountered technical problems with the election’s Web site. According to junior Gina Moon, a member of the slate BOOYAH!, the Elections Commission refused to release the number of votes each of the senior class presidential slates received, though the commission did release the votes earned by the sophomore and junior class slates.

“We feel that the democratic process of the ASSU is in question,” Moon said in a letter to The Daily submitted after the results were announced. “It makes us feel very uncomfortable to not know what number of votes each slate received.”

According to Moon, the commission declined to release the numbers when asked by members of the slate after the announcements and said they would address the concerns today.

Williams was not available to discuss these concerns immediately following results, however she did note that she will most likely be releasing a statement today.

The race for senior class president was expected to be one of the tightest in this year’s election.

Henestroza explained that the Elections Commission looked at the Constitution and closely followed the rules for the elections. She also stated that, unless a group officially petitions the Elections Commission, the commission does not directly respond to complaints.

In the race for executive office, Nadiya Figueroa and Joey Natoli won with approximately 2,500 votes, with Steve Yelderman and Charlie Stockman coming in second.

“It was a good race and we’re really excited,” Figueroa said. “We’re going in with high energy, and it’ll be a good year.”

Yelderman seemed accepting of the results.

“I think the results are what one can expect whenever you challenge ASSU insiders,” he said. “ It was a tough uphill battle, and we’re proud of where we got. We think we left a message to the student body.”

Stockman emphasized the number of votes received.

“1,503 votes, that’s unprecedented,” he said. “We got the most votes ever, and I take that as a mandate to initiate our policies. We’re going to replace the Marguerites with hovering Marguerites.”