Results may have been announced today, but Student Government elections are still not over. Due to a problem with ballot-filter settings, elections for the senior class president and College of Agriculture and Life Science senate seats have to be re-run, according to Brian Parks, a senior in accounting and vice chair of the Student Government Board of Elections. 

Before polling begins, Student Government advisors apply filters to the online voting system, which allow certain groups of students to vote for their specific class and college representatives. Students then test the voting system in weeks leading up to the election. 

Both groups missed mistakes on the ballot that caused voter groups ineligible to vote in those races to accidentally be marked as eligible to vote, according to Parks. 

Polls will be open Monday and Tuesday for a re-vote on these positions, Parks said.

The N.C. State Elections Commission announced the winners of the remaining positions that were correctly polled the Talley Governance Chambers Wednesday.

Candidates Rusty Mau, a senior in economics, and Devan Riley, a junior in accounting, received 53 percent of the vote for the student body  president and vice president team, beating presidential candidate Alanna Propst, a junior in political science, and vice presidential candidate Grant Do, a junior in business administration, by about 153 votes. 

Alex Grindstaff, a senior in biological sciences, was elected student senate president with a total of 51 percent of the vote. He defeated Alex Yadon, a senior in electrical engineering, by about 61 votes. 

Voter participation for the election was lower than expected with 3,067 total votes collected, which accounts for 9 percent of N.C. State’s total enrollment, according to Student Body President Alex Parker. 

Participation has been declining since 2010, when voter participation was about 5,600 students, or about 17 percent of the total enrollment, according to Parker. 

Parker said he thought the addition of a vice president to the ballot would increase the number of voters because the candidates would be able to reach more students and encourage them to vote. 

“I was expecting the number to go up almost dramatically, but it actually went down,” Parker said.

This year’s ballot was the first to feature a student body vice president position. Candidate’s for student body president chose running mates, and the pairs ran on a single ticket.

Riley will serve as student body vice president aside his running mate Mau. Riley said he is excited to set the precedent for this position and give back the student body that elected him.

“You know, in the past there has been a lot of negative sentiment toward student government,” Riley said. “I’ve heard a lot of words like pointless, worthless, stupid—that’s over with. That’s over with the second we get to work.”

Mau said he was overwhelmed and speechless after he received the news of his election.

“We couldn’t have done this without the support of our friends, our peers, but this is just a testament to how far we have to go,” Mau said. “There is a lot to be done, and we’re ready to start working.”

Propst declined to comment.