On the eve of the election, the Student Association Board of Elections was enveloped in a discussion Monday night about the alleged biased nature of one of its members.

SA presidential candidate Troy Caldwell provided a list of eight statements in hopes that board member Jeff Meyer would resign his position on a board created to oversee any election squabbles. The request came from an incident earlier Monday when Meyer removed wooden signs promoting Caldwell’s ticket, believing the unmarked materials to be against the elections policy.

Meyer, though, declined the request as both sides argued their cases in front of the remaining board in the SA conference room.

Despite harsh words from both sides, though, they only could discuss the situation, not act on it. The removal of a board member requires an act by the SA Supreme Court. Caldwell said he will submit something to that court today, although how that will affect the election remains undetermined.

Caldwell thinks the signs have been approved and can be reposted, preferably by Meyer. However, Meyer contends he’s still in the right and that the signs were a violation.

“To me, that’s being very biased, very unfair … I don’t think this should be accepted by the board,” Caldwell said.

“I don’t think I have to rectify something if I didn’t do anything wrong,” Meyer countered.

Under the election guidelines, a board member can confiscate any unstamped posted material and keep it on file. Caldwell, though, argued that because he believes the signs are legal, the delay in the reposting has wasted campaign time and campaign efforts.

Meyer and Caldwell have met before in the 2001 election process. During the Caldwell Supreme Court case earlier this month, they were on opposing sides in Caldwell’s efforts to get back on the ballot.

The signs in question were large, wooden signs with orange background and green-painted candidate names. Meyer took three signs implanted around campus, he said, because they were not stamped by University Programming and Activities and therefore in violation of Article VIII of the Elections Policy.

Caldwell alleged Meyer should have taken only one sign and then acknowledged his error after speaking to Elections Commissioner Felicia Gootch and SA adviser Michelle Bringas. Meyer contended that no one specifically looks over the board’s actions and was satisfied that his confiscation was justified.