The Election Commission will hold a violation hearing at 7 p.m. tonight.

To adjust for the hearing, preliminary election results will be announced at 8 p.m. Thursday.

The deadline for reporting revenue and expenses was pushed back from 5 p.m. Wednesday to 5 p.m. Friday.

Dan Porter, GSB election commissioner, said the deadline was pushed back because the commission had been unable to track down original copies of the forms used to submit the information.

Porter said he was initially going to have the candidates send in Excel spreadsheets of their expenditures, but, after e-mailing the election commissioner from two years ago, he was able to get copies of the original document.

Porter then asked the candidates to move their spending information over to the commission’s form and gave them an extended deadline in order to make the switch.

Election contestations were due to the election commission by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Any decisions made would have been made past the Iowa State Daily’s publication deadline. Check iowastatedaily.net Thursday for updates.