Though the results of the junior GUSA Assembly elections were announced as scheduled Thursday, complications with the freshman and sophomore races prevented the release of those results until last Friday.

With 20.3 percent of the vote, Geoff Greene (SFS ’07) and Khalil Hibri (SFS ’07), the vanquished candidates in February’s executive elections, were elected representatives along with Alex Johnston (SFS ’07) and Christina Goodlander (SFS ’07). The Election Commission, however, delayed announcing the winners of the freshman Assembly race until Friday so that they could decide whether or not a run-off election was called for, Election Commissioner Benita Sinnarajah (NHS ’06) said Thursday.

After speaking with the candidates and engaging in private deliberations, the Election Commission decided that a run-off would be unnecessary, Sinnarajah said.

Pat Salvo (SFS ’09) received 9.5 percent of the votes, the highest percentage among the freshman candidates. Will Dreher (SFS ’09) and Sarra Karzai (SFS ’09) trailed closely behind Salvo, with 8.8 percent and 8.4 percent of the vote, respectively. Brian Wood (COL ’09) was the final winner, receiving 7.8 percent of vote.

Sinnarajah said that although there were four winners, the close margins could have justified a second vote. Both she and several of the candidates agreed that the margins were the result of the unusually high number of candidates this year.

Jorge Vega (SFS ’09), one of the candidates among the top eight and therefore a potential candidate in a run-off election, said that although a second election would have been more democratic, he supported the Election Commission’s decision.

Several freshman candidates said that run-off elections would have been contrary to the student association’s bylaws and detrimental to GUSA’s legitimacy.

“It would have been unconstitutional, unprecedented and remarkable considering the Election Commission refused to hold a runoff election when they admitted wrongdoing, and now wanted to hold one because they thought the election was `too close,'” Dreher said Sunday.

The results of the sophomore race were not released until yesterday. Margaret Rohrmann (SFS ’08) received 12.4 percent of the vote, winning alongside Kevin Boyd (SFS ’08), Haig Nerguizian (MSB ’08) and Matthew Appenfeller (COL ’08), who received 11.8 percent, 11.3 percent and 9.8 percent of the votes, respectively.

Sinnarajah said Sunday that some seniors had received an e-mail encouraging sophomores to vote, and as a result the Election Commission was investigating whether any non-sophomores voted in the election.

Dave Stroup (COL ’06), president of SAXA Server, the organization that provides the Web services for the election, said that if seniors had tried to vote in the sophomore elections, they should have received an error message.

“Saxa Server is provided a list by the election commissioner of who is eligible to vote in each election,” Stroup said. “When someone attempts to vote, their e-mail address is checked against this list. If they are not on the list, they cannot vote.”

The Election Commission has been exercising extra caution in the race, however, and checked SAXA Server’s list of voters against the registrar’s list of current sophomores to ensure that no seniors voted, Sinnarajah said.

Sinnarajah said that overall, she was pleased with the election.

“All the candidates did a great job,” she said.

The results of the election will be certified at the Assembly meeting tonight.