Although all of the candidates have different ideas of why theylost at last week’s Associated Students Inc. election,Brandon Kline plans to take action about it.

Kline, who ran for president on the yellowslate, said that he plans to petition ASI to make a by-law changethat would introduce run-off elections to Sacramento State.

Kline said that a run-off election is a secondelection that would be held between the two candidates who won themost votes, and would take place a week after the initialelection.

A run-off election would only be held in asituation such as last week’s election, when no candidatewins a clear majority of the students’ vote.

Wood won with 34.2 percent of the vote; Klineclaimed 30.6 percent.

“When a winner wins with 34 percent ofthe vote, that’s clearly not the mandate of students fortheir leader,” Kline said. “A run-off election wouldensure a clear winner for students.”

Kline said he will pursue the by-law changeafter he researches the issue. Meanwhile, he said he is unsurewhether he will pursue a recount.

“It could be construed as sourgrapes,” Kline said. “It’s too early for me tosay.”

Kline also said that he has not decidedwhether he would like to apply for the new ASI position, vicepresident of academic affairs. He said that he believes Wood has”undoubtedly” already promised that position tosomeone.

“I know that a lot of peopledidn’t get in office that Josh was running with, so he hascampaign promises to fulfill,” Kline said.

Julio Velazquez, who ran for president on theorange slate, said that he plans to apply for the vice president ofacademic affairs position.

“I don’t know what my chancesare,” Velazquez said. “I’ve built goodrelationships with everyone that won on the board (ofdirectors).”

Velazquez said that he believes he will win ifthe board chooses the position based on qualifications andexperience.

The candidates who did not win ASI positionshave different opinions on why they lost.

Kline said that Wood likely won because of hiscampaign strategy of saturating the campus with fliers.

“There are things that I saw him do thatI wouldn’t do … such as yelling at the top of hislungs, and being abrasive with voters,” Kline said.

Matthew McPhail, who ran for vice president offinance on the yellow slate, also said that he lost to Luke Woodbecause of Wood’s flier campaign strategy.

“People who voted for him didn’tnecessarily know all about him,” McPhail said.

Velazquez believed that neither he nor Klinewon because the Recreation Wellness Events Center split the votesbetween the orange and yellow slates.

Velazquez also said that the Latino communityvotes were split between the red and orange slate.

“The red and orange slates were almostall Latino,” Velazquez said. “If all the Latinos gottogether, we would’ve won.”

Although they did not win the ASI positionsthat they had hoped for, most of the candidates who lost still planto be involved in ASI next year.

McPhail said he hopes to serve on the financeand budget committee, even though Luke Wood would have to appointhim to that position.

“It would be nice to have a say in howthe money’s being spent,” McPhail said.