The past few weeks have been filled with campaign promises, debates, and 20 people fighting for six spots on the Student Association executive board. In Old University Union, room 252, emotions were high as candidates and supporters awaited the results of this year’s election.

Candidates were excited, nervous, scared, and a mixture of all three.

“I feel nervous because I’ve worked so hard and it all comes down to tonight,” said executive vice president candidate Jared Kirschenbaum.

Some candidates were over their “nervous phase” and were just ready to find out the results.

“I’m just really excited, but I have no regrets. I did my best for a good cause,” said presidential hopeful Ah-Hil Kim.

Kirschenbaum said he believes all candidates really got their names out there over the past few weeks.

“It has been a culmination of everybody’s hard work and campaigning and flyering,” he said.

Presidential candidate Aaron Butler, a junior management and leadership consulting major, said “the elections are out of our hands now. I did all that I could.”

Candidates said how excited they were about the Binghamton-Duke game.

Presidential candidate Adam Amit, a junior philosophy, politics and law major, wanted to go home to cheer on the Bearcats, but decided to stay until he heard the results for president.

Counting over 2,000 ballots is a feat in it of itself, especially with counting problematic ballots, dealing with a noisy room and an overarching huge basketball game for BU. Yet, with ten counters and two counts per ballot, the Elections Committee had everything under control.

Still, Mary Leonardo, SA election chair, said that according to bylaws, Dickinson College’s votes could have been void because ballots did not include mandatory signatures.

A possible explanation for this situation is that there wasn’t an instruction packet found with the Dickinson ballot box. There was a unanimous decision by the elections committee to count the votes for now with the expectation of grievances.