For the second consecutive year, the Central Student Government presidential elections didn't end when polls closed.

Concluding more than a week later after multiple hearings, the Central Student Judiciary gave its verbal, but unofficial, opinion upholding the University Election Commission's decision to disqualify LSA juniors Chris Osborn and Hayley Sakwa, forUM's executive candidates, on Saturday. Several justices expressed displeasure about the decision.

During the hearing, Engineering senior Chris Stevens, chief justice of CSJ, said it “sickens” him for another election to be decided by court cases and that assembly needs to be more proactive in avoiding these situations.

“Every year it seems like the assembly just enacts something that basically tries to address only the previous year’s problem,” he said.

Stevens said he also felt there are flaws in the demerit system for rule violations.

In an interview after the meeting, Stevens said while he did not feel it was his place to suggest changes to the election code, changes must be made.

“I just feel it’s necessary — and my duty — to express frustration because we shouldn’t be encountering a situation each year where we have to rule on this,” he said.

Law School student Zack Stillings, a CSJ justice, said he thought Osborn was the choice of students even though he was found guilty of influencing students while voting.

“This man over here won by 500 votes,” Stillings said, pointing to Osborn.

Stillings added that it's imperative that students are not incentivized to file complaints for competitive reasons.

LSA junior Lukas Garske, the CSG student general counsel, defended the UEC.

“You have to make a decision you don’t want to make sometimes,” he said. “That’s what it boils down (to).”

In response to Stevens’s claim that the assembly needs to enact preventative legislation, Garske said, there's “an ambiguity that a party can find and exploit.”