J Hudson and Dani Borel won seats as the next Student Government president and vice president Wednesday despite spending errors that disqualified everyone else on their ticket. Hudson and Borel of “StudentsFIRST” received 51.1 percent of the vote (2,150 votes), and Brooksie Bonvillain and Chris Sellers of “Leading the Way” received 48.9 percent (2,057 votes).Commissioner of Elections Alexis Sarver announced the results at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Dodson Auditorium. The SG Election Board disqualified 22 runoff candidates from the “StudentsFIRST” ticket and Theo Williams and Millena Williams’ “Geauxing the Distance” ticket for overspending in the final week of campaigning. Nine of the disqualified candidates would have won their runoff elections if they had not been disqualified. Sarver said “StudentsFIRST” didn’t overspend as a whole, but individual candidates spent more than the allowed $29 per candidate.Hudson said he wrote $32 as each candidate’s expenditures when the ticket only spent $29 per candidate. Hudson said his campaign only spent $1,112.07 of its allowed $1,156 expenditures. The ticket spends as one entity, therefore an individual candidate cannot overspend unless the entire ticket overspends, Hudson said. But Hudson did incorrectly fill out each candidate’s expenditure report and had each candidate sign. He said he computed it wrong because he “worked in reverse.””What I should’ve done is divide among the candidates, and then divvied the rest into Dani and my budget,” Hudson said. The “Geauxing the Distance” campaign did overspend as a whole, and all their runoff candidates were disqualified. “The election code says, ‘This is how much money you can spend,'” Sarver said. “They spent over the amount they were allowed to spend, so they were disqualified.”Hudson said he doesn’t know how to feel after winning the election but having all of his candidates disqualified.”That’s the first thing on my mind before we can celebrate a victory,” Hudson said.Borel also said the victory was bittersweet.”In light of recent events, it’s hard to be happy right now,” Borel said.Sellers said he and Bonvillain  might have lost because they assumed they had it in the bag.”I congratulated them,” Sellers said. “If it couldn’t be Brooksie and I, J and Dani would be the ones I would’ve chosen.”Of 89 “Leading the Way” candidates, 81 officially won their elections — a “91 percent win rate,” said Sellers. “The election code is black and white,” Sellers said. “Ignorance of the rules does not excuse them from following them. Our candidates are the winners.”Arts and Sciences Senator Drew Prestridge said he believes Bonvillain and Sellers should have won the election.”If you cannot put together your expense reports, you’re nowhere near ready to be SG president and vice president,” Prestridge said.Hudson and Borel won the runoff election by 93 votes after Bonvillain and Sellers received 701 more votes than “StudentsFIRST” in the general election.SG officials said  4,293 votes were cast in the runoff, accounting for 16.3 percent of the student body, based on spring 2010 enrollment of 26,261 students, according to numbers from the Office of Budget and Planning. The 5,636 votes in last week‘s election represented 21.5 percent of the student body.Students also voted 77.4 percent (2,730 votes) to approve the changes to the SG Constitution.”I am extremely excited students still felt the need for our changes,” said Aaron Caffarel, Arts and Sciences senator and author of the amendments.The election results will become official two school days after the election results, or April 12.Any students can file a complaint with Sarver or the SG Election Board until then. –Contact Catherine Threlkeld at [email protected]