Super Tuesday wasn’t so super for the University of Iowa Student Government elections.

Andy Stoll, president-elect, and his running mate, Chris Linn, won 50 percent of the vote in the university’s first complete online governmental elections, which were finished Tuesday.

However, their competitors, Marquez Brown and Brad Bare, who received 34 percent of the votes, are claiming the winning ticket’s campaign was unfair. The other ticket, Adam Tetzloff and Lauren Haldeman, received 16 percent of the vote.

Brown said Stoll and Linn violated several campaign rules, charging that one of Linn’s fraternity house members was wearing a Stoll/Linn T-shirt in the Instructional Technology Center, where online voting was taking place.

Brown said the election board chairman told him it is against the rules to wear such a T-shirt in the ITC since it was a polling site.

Allegations of unfair campaigns arise almost every year at U of I, Linn said.

“It happens after every campaign,” Linn said. “The losers accuse the winners of campaign violations. It’s a heat-of-the-moment type of reaction.”

As for the fraternity member who was reportedly wearing a pro-Stoll/Linn T-shirt, Linn said he can’t dictate what people wear to the sites. He said his fraternity brother wasn’t calling attention to the logo while polling was being conducted.

Another possible rule violation that Brown said occurred during the U of I campaign was passing out fliers during lectures. Brown said he has witnesses who said they saw the Stoll/Linn fliers being distributed.

Brown also said the Stoll/Linn ticket badmouthed the Brown/Bare campaign among U of I’s greek community, saying at a Kappa Sigma fraternity that the Brown/Bare ticket was “anti-greek.”

Linn said it the “anti-greek” remarks stemmed from Brown’s comments about U of I’s homecoming court being too greek and not diverse enough.

Brown said the election results appalled, shocked and hurt him.

“From this campaign, I learned that if you play dirty, you’ll win,” he said. “There is really no self-regulations of rules at the University of Iowa. They should have been stopped during the campaign.”

In response, Linn said he and his running mate did nothing wrong.

“Andy and I are confident that we ran a clean campaign and followed the rules,” he said. “I’m disappointed the allegations were made.”

Matt Craft, Iowa State’s Government of the Student Body president, said campaign materials should not be allowed at polling sites to avoid the situation plaguing the U of I election.

“Then you get into problems when someone says something about the campaign material,” he said. “It just opens up more problems.”

But Craft said he thinks this kind of campaigning in lectures is fine as long as the candidates have the professor’s consent.

“That’s probably a question more of the individual professor,” he said. “If they’re fine with it, then we can start looking into it. But the last thing we need is the GSB elections ruining academics.”

U of I’s elections were held online this year, with 2,700 people voting, or 10 percent of the student body. Despite the fact that this was the first time elections had been held online, this was 400 fewer votes than last year.

“It’s new. Not a lot of students are aware of it,” Linn said as explanation.

Craft said U of I’s reduced voter turnout emphasizes the importance students put on the strength of candidates. “Ultimately, it’s the slates, not the technology,” he said.

Larry Houston, chief justice of U of I’s Student Judicial Court, said the election turnout was good considering there were only three slates, when last year there were five.

U of I’s student body also placed a spending cap of $1,500 on this year’s election, he said.

“The election board wanted the candidates to get out and talk to students they would be representing,” Houston said. “We also wanted to make it more accessible to students so the average student would still have the opportunity to run. No matter what your financial background is, you’re still on the same level, and the best representative can win.”

As for the charges against the victorious ticket, Linn said the next step will be to determine if the alleged violations had a significant influence on the outcome of the election.

Brown said even if it’s discovered that the Stoll/Linn ticket committed some kind of infraction, he doesn’t know if he and his running mate would take the position, since they wanted to win definitively. Brown said if Stoll and Linn officially become the next president and vice president, he will consider giving his letter of resignation to U of I’s student government.