The Government of the Student Body winners are… going to be announced Thursday.

The polls for the GSB election have closed, but the election results will not be announced until 7 p.m. Thursday.

GSB election commissioner Mark Sullivan, senior in chemistry, said the reason for the delay is challenge ballots.

Students are allowed to vote for two senators from two different constituencies: one based on their college and the other based on their residency.

However, sometimes the information GSB has for a student’s residence or major does not match up with the facts. These students have the option of filling out a challenge ballot, which allows them to vote for senators in a constituency other than the ones in which they are listed. The students then have 24 hours to show proof of their residences or majors.

Sullivan said he and the rest of the election commission will go through the challenge ballots Wednesday to determine if the ballots are valid. If approved, the votes are counted.

“There are cases where whether or not we can approve the challenge ballot will affect the results of one of the races,” he said.

He added that the reason results will be released so late on Thursday is that most people have classes during the day.

As of Tuesday afternoon, there had already been more than 100 challenge ballots filed.

The rules for releasing the election results are outlined in the election time line.

In order to change when the results are released, Sullivan said there must be an amendment to the election code, which must be done by the senate.

Every year, the senate and election commission review, revise and approve the election code. This year, there was a change made to the timing of the election. Sullivan said there had been concerns about the election being held the week before spring break, so the election was moved up a week.

“It wasn’t an issue at all to move it up a week, we didn’t see any problems with that,” he said.

Other things the election commission does after the polls are closed include checking eligibility for those who are elected. This includes the constituency eligibility as well as grade point average.

Students this year are allowed to run for a residence constituency if they can provide documentation they will be living there next year. When an individual wins a seat, Sullivan said, the name is given to GSB’s adviser to make sure the person meets the 2.0 GPA requirement.