In an effort to remove Chris Lange from his executive vicepresident-elect position in Associated Students Inc., unsuccessfulcandidate Angel Barajas has filed charges against Lange concerningcampaign finance misconduct.

Barajas, who unsuccessfully ran for executivevice president on the red slate, finishing second to Lange, filedan election complaint that the yellow slate forged a receipt fromthe California Business Machines.

“I believe that they made these receiptsin order to stay under the budget,” Barajas said.

Lange said that he blames Brandon Kline forthe election complaint over the receipt, because Kline turned inthe receipt. Kline was the yellow slate candidate for president whofinished second to Joshua Wood.

Sherry Kramer, an employee at CaliforniaBusiness Machines whose parents own the company, said the receiptis flawed in many areas.

“There are so many discrepancies thatit’s hilarious,” Sherry Kramer said.

The receipt lists the prices of leaflets,fliers and t-shirts purchased at the California BusinessMachines.

Kline said that the California BusinessMachines donated the T-shirts to the yellow slate. However, Kramersaid that the California business machines doesn’t sellT-shirts or provide services for printing T-shirts.

“We don’t have T-shirts todonate,” Sherry Kramer said.

Kline said that he filled out parts of thereceipt, but that his “memory is hazy” for which partsof the receipt he may have filled out.

“The employee wrote on the receipt and Iwrote on it,” Kline said.

He also said that Janelle Kramer,Sherry’s daughter, who works at the California BusinessMachines, initialed the receipt in question and also filled out thereceipt.

Janelle Kramer, a freshman criminal justicemajor, said that the T-shirts were a personal donation to thecampaign.

Other discrepancies concerning the receiptinclude the fact that the company only provides copies; it does notprovide services for printing leaflets or fliers. Also, thereceipt’s invoice number is incorrect for the date providedon the receipt, and the date itself is incomplete because it doesnot include the year.

Glen Kramer, who also works for CaliforniaBusiness Machines, said that another reason the receipt is flawedis because it is handwritten.

“Handwritten receipts are mostly usedwith services and repairs,” Glen Kramer said.”Ninety-nine percent of the time we use cash registerreceipts.”

Kline said that he handled the all of theyellow slate’s finances, and that he put his girlfriend incharge of keeping track of the receipts.

The spending reports for the ASI election weredue at 4:30 p.m. on April 30. Lange said that he initially turnedhis spending report in early, but pulled it back out after talkingto Kline.

“He wanted to double check everythingand make sure I did everything right because…this is thefirst year I have turned in a spending report,” Langesaid.

Lange managed his own finances last year whenhe ran for director for the college of business. Since he lost byso many votes, Lange said he did not bother turning a spendingreport in.

Lange said that Kline wanted to turn in acollective yellow slate spending report. The yellow slate turned intheir spending report late, because Kline’s girlfriend was ina car accident that afternoon.

“The car was totaled, and the receiptswere in the car,” Kline said. “We had to drive allaround town getting duplicate receipts of everything.”

Kline said the receipt from the CaliforniaBusiness Machines is one of those duplicates.

Lange said that there would not have been anyproblems with his spending report if Kline had not convinced him totake the report back out to go over it.

“He double-checked it and screwed mineup,” Lange said. “My spending report would’venever even have been looked at if I hadn’t pulled itout.”

Lange said that while he doesn’t blameKline, he doesn’t trust him.

“The only person I have to blame ismyself, because I trusted the wrong person,” Lange said.”I don’t trust (Kline) with anything that could affectmy future.”

The election complaints will be brought beforethe election complaints committee on Friday. This committee willreview the evidence, and decide whether Lange will remain inoffice.

Pat Worley, the executive director of ASI,said that if Lange is removed from his position as executive vicepresident, then that position would go to Barajas, who received thenext highest votes.

Barajas said he filed the election complaintsagainst Lange because he wants the executive vice presidentposition.

“I want to focus on this and becomeexecutive vice president because I should’ve won,”Barajas said.

Lange said that he believes the reason thatBarajas filed so many complaints against him was because he refusedto comply with a deal that president-elect Josh Wood offered CalvinDavis, the yellow slate’s campaign advisor.

Davis said that in a meeting on May 1, Woodoffered Davis and other members of the yellow slate positions inASI and a promise that no election complaints would be filedagainst the yellow slate. These conditions would be met if Daviscould convince Lange and the board members from the yellow slate tovote for Barajas for the newly created vice president of academicaffairs position.

“The exchange was to make sure that wedidn’t have any complaints against (Wood), and that Chris and(the board members) would vote for Angel,” Davis said.

Davis said that Wood offered him a position asWood’s chief of staff, and that Wood offered to create an ASIposition for Kline.

Wood said that he denies these claims.

“We didn’t meet to strike somedeal, it was meeting to talk,” Wood said. “The overallintent…was to move on and work together. I never said if youguys vote for him there won’t be any complaintsfiled.”

Wood, who has three election complaints filedagainst him, said that if he is still in office next year, he plansto write new legislation concerning the election rules.

Wood said that he plans to increase thecampaigning budget from $100 for the executive candidates to $200,and from $50 for the board of directors candidates to $200.