Students wanting to run for a Government of the Student Body office now have another chance to announce their candidacy.

Because of a technicality, the GSB presidential elections will still be accepting candidates until this Friday.

According to the GSB bylaws, the election timeline must state the date by which an individual must register as an official candidate. However, this year’s timeline does not explicitly state the deadline.

Because of this, someone can officially still be on the ballot, granted the slate collects the required 1,500 signatures by this Friday.

GSB senator and senior in finance Tomasz Dworzanski said he found the technicality, presented it to the election commissioner and there were several reasons why he made the information public.

“Obviously I’m interested in having at least two different individuals to choose from for president and vice-president,” he said.

Another reason was that Dworzanski said he had talked to several individuals who expressed interest in running for vice-president and wanted to help those interested find someone who wanted to run for president.

“I have talked to four or five people that are interested in the vice-presidency rather passionately, and as of right now, I have been contacted by at least one person who wants to run for president,” he said.

GSB election commissioner and senior in mechanical engineering Michael Gilbert said because of the technicality, he has to accept more candidates.

After speaking to the election commissioner, presidential candidate and junior in political science Brian Phillips said he will not contest the decision.

“I’m not going to protest this to anyone,” he said. “It’s his decision and the election commission’s decision and I respect that.”

Gilbert and Phillips both said this problem needs to be fixed for next year. However, Gilbert said for this year’s election nothing can be done.

For anyone considering a run for president, Gilbert said to make contact with him as soon as possible. After contacting him, there are a few other things prospective candidates must do, including getting the required number of signatures and abiding by all of the rules in the election code.

Phillips said this new decision will not effect what he has been doing or what he plans to do.

“I’m still going to go out there and campaign, just like I have been planning and I have been doing for weeks, and if someone else wants to run, that’s fine, but it’s my goal to win,” he said.

Gilbert said he didn’t know what the odds of another candidate running for president were.

There is a good chance that Iowa State will see a contested presidential election, Dworzanski said. Collecting signatures is easy because it does not require someone to support you as a candidate.

“I think the likelihood is very high,” he said.

Phillips said it was difficult to say if he would see an opponent in the election because he has not heard of anyone who wants to run, and collecting signatures in this short amount of time would be difficult.

“I would initially say that I don’t think that anyone will decide to run,” Phillips said.