Six presidential and vice presidential candidate teams are still in the game.

Out of the eight candidate teams who are running for Undergraduate Student Government spring quarter, two have been found to be ineligible.

The Aaron Pendergraft-Timothy Whigham and Sean Cool-Tony Palmer teams were disqualified by the Elections Governance Board. Both hope to appeal their disqualification to the USG judicial panel.

Cool was disqualified because he is a part-time student this quarter.

“One must be full-time from the time the petitions were started,” Palmer said.

The EGB had voted on the new bylaws Feb. 5, but the candidates were not informed of the changes until Feb. 19, Palmer said. Cool withdrew from one of his classes Feb. 21.

“Cool made up his mind he was going to drop it from the first day of the quarter,” he said.

However, the EGB still found the candidate team to be ineligible.

The Pendergraft-Whigam team is facing some of the same problems.

Pendergraft said he was disqualified because his running-mate, Whigam, was not a full-time student this quarter. Whigam had dropped one of his classes, making him a part-time student.

“I’m trying to work out something with the EGB,” Pendergraft said.

Pendergraft said he hopes to show some contradictions in the election bylaws. The EGB does not clearly define if a candidate team is made up of two or one members, so he wants to find out if he could run without a running-mate, he said.

The other candidates are: Chris Bolte and Matt Straka; Bart Connolly and Nicole Kidston; Michael Goodman and Frank Sasso; Dave Hazard and Sean Taylor; Chris Peters and Nicky Smolter; and Kirk Strohman and Chris Hempfling.

Some of those running have had experience with USG. Goodman is USG’s vice president this year, Connolly is a USG Greek senator, Kidston is the policy director in the USG president’s Cabinet and Smolter is the outreach director in the Cabinet.

Although the USG presidential and vice presidential campaign will be tough, senators may not face a lot of competition. There are still 19 vacancies for senator positions.

Some of the vacancies include two explorer senators, two human ecology senators, three engineering senators and three commuter senators.

One of the changes to the USG structure this year had been the expansion of the senate. The senate, which had originally consisted of 26 members, has more than doubled its size this year.

USG President Eddie Pauline had said it was ridiculous to have just one south campus senator because that is not enough to reach out to the entire south campus. With the new changes, south campus now has eight senators.

However, now USG is having difficulties trying to fill the positions.

For this reason, the application deadline for senators has been extended until Friday, said Sara Topy, the chief executive officer for USG.