The Inter-Residence Hall Association will announce the results of the second election for IRHA president and vice president after Thursday night’s meeting.

Elections, which were April 3, did not yield the 50 percent-plus-one results required for one slate to win over the other.

Originally, Dave Boike, IRHA election commissioner and vice president, announced Keith Twombley and Jessi Raim as the winners. The slate won by 10 votes.

Later, however, Boike examined the bylaws and found that the votes weren’t enough to declare a victory. He called for a run-off election.

The slate of Heather Minish and Amber Hoermann was originally declared the loser of the election.

Twombley, who was celebrating with friends at Dairy Queen when he got the news, said he will be introducing a proposal that will change the bylaws so future slates can win with a simple majority vote.

“First of all I think it’s a shame that the voters have already spoken and the bylaws ignore their voice,” he said.

Explaining the run-off election to voters is difficult, Twombley said, but he hopes people voted again.

“It’s mind-boggling to everybody,” he said. “People have already voted, and the general attitude is, `I’ve already voted once, why are you making us vote again?’ “

Twombley’s running mate, Raim, said nobody called her to let her know she didn’t win after all.

“I found out from my e-mail when I woke up Friday morning,” she said. “I guess originally that portion of the bylaws served a purpose, but considering we only had one-seventh voter turn out, it isn’t needed. We don’t get the majority to vote anyway.”

Hoermann said she received a call Thursday night after she already told everyone she lost.

“I got a call saying we didn’t lose but didn’t win,” she said. “It’s nice to have a second chance this year instead of waiting another year. It’s causing students to be more excited about going out themselves and voting to make sure somebody wins.”

All three agreed it will be a matter of who can convince students to take time out of their day and vote a second time, but they all felt optimistic.

“I’m very confident that the first time through we won, and I think that message will shine through,” Twombley said.

Boike said they will also vote to re-approve the campus Newspaper Readership Program at the meeting.

New business to be presented includes two funding bills to purchase a CD-R drive for the IRHA computer for back-up purposes and to purchase Macromedia Dreamweaver for the maintenance of the IRHA Web site. Also, another bylaw bill to change election bylaws so the Election Commissioner is only responsible for holding one candidate forum during the election will be presented, Boike said.

The meeting is at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Oak Room of the Memorial Union.