The elections may be over, but several Government of the Student Body candidates are still paying for their campaigns.

Trish Sandahl, election commissioner, said several GSB candidates were fined for not turning in their campaign budgets on time and for not including all costs on their budgets. Twenty-one Senate candidates and one presidential slate were asked to attend disciplinary hearings for their violations of the election codes.

The violations included not attending a mandatory ballot position drawing, not turning in a preliminary and/or final financial disclosure form (campaign budgets) on time and some candidates were charged with never submitting a final budget form.

The violators were fined $25 for not submitting either financial form, $15 for turning the forms in late and $10 for not attending the ballot position drawing. “These are mainly just minor charges, but they do have to be dealt with,” Sandahl said.

Those in violation of the election codes included GSB president-elect Adam Gold, who, Sandahl said, was fined on two charges — failing to include the cost of transporting voters to and from the voting precinct in the Memorial Union and as a result, falsifying his budget.

Sandahl said transporting voters is allowed in the election rules as long as the candidates put the cost on their budgets. She said she told all of the candidates about the rule, and another presidential slate also transported voters to the Union and did put it on their budget.

Gold was fined $20 for the value of the items he failed to include, cost of gas, and $80 for falsifying his budget because he did not include the item.

Gold said he was not aware or informed of the requirement to include the cost of gas for transporting voters to the voting booths on his budget. He said the $7 estimated for the cost of the gas could easily be taken out of the $70 he had left over from the campaign and he added, it was not left out intentionally. All presidential candidates have a $500 maximum spending allowance for their campaigns.

“It was an oversight. There were no intentional means here. We didn’t know about the requirement, plain and simple,” Gold said.