Less than 24 hours after the second and final Student Association executive candidate meeting, a third informal meeting was held Wednesday to hear the complaints of potential candidates.

John Acardo, chair of the SA Board of Elections, told the Northern Star that several individuals had phoned him requesting a hearing to add an additional candidate meeting.

Andrew Nelms, SA election commissioner, Acardo and three other board members attended the informal meeting.

“This is by no means a Board of Elections meeting,” Acardo told the Star. He explained that it was just an informational meeting for potential candidates.

According to an opinion released Wednesday by Acardo, only two potential candidates showed up and voiced their arguments.

“In each circumstance, the board agreed that a reasonable effort could have been made by each in attendance to notify the Board of Elections, the SA or the Election Commissioner,” Acardo wrote in the opinion.

Acardo said the board made its decision based on the arguments of the two candidates in attendance. He said the board felt the arguments were not strong enough to warrant another meeting.

“We spent the better half of the day trying to track them down,” Acardo said.

Acardo said despite the fact that five people had contacted both Nelms and himself, they only were able to reach two of them.

Nelms released a similar opinion in response to the request for an additional meeting. Nelms said, in his opinion, granting an additional meeting would be unfair to other students in the same position.

“We could not properly publicize and make the public aware of an additional candidate meeting to any acceptable degree,” Nelms wrote.

According to SA elections policy, an additional meeting must be scheduled the same week as the first meeting, but before the day the registration packets are due.

Packets are due to the SA office manager on Friday.

The board voted 4-0 in favor of not holding another candidate meeting.