An Undergraduate Student Government senator will motion to impeach three USG elections commissioners and the USG treasurer, and will investigate a fourth elections commissioner at the USG Senate meeting tomorrow night.

Town Senator Mike Snider wrote an impeachment resolution against Head Elections Commissioner Wendy Goldstein, Voting and Tallying Commissioner Kim Shriver, Candidacy and Campaigning Commissioner Jennifer Bronzini and USG Treasurer David Bindseil. He also wants the senate to investigate Debate and Publicity Commissioner Scott Reed.

Snider alleges that Goldstein forwarded a written complaint to the elections court, a duty the elections code indicates is Bronzini's job. He has charged Bronzini and Shriver with distributing buttons without the required numbered ribbons attached, and Goldstein and Bindseil for accepting the votes of Academic Assembly proxies in a joint Acadamic Assembly-USG Senate session. According to USG bylaws, proxies may not vote.

Snider wants Reed to be investigated for showing prejudicial treatment as a witness against presidential candidate Jim Van Horn (junior-history) in last week's elections court trial.

All the officials who face the impeachment resolution said the charges are unfounded, and Head Elections Commissioner Wendy Goldstein said she doubted the motion would pass.

"I don't think he can find more than five people to support that resolution," Goldstein said. "I think you'll probably find 95 percent of the senators support me."

But Snider said he has sufficient evidence against the commissioners and Bindseil.

"I wouldn't have brought up the charges if I didn't think I could prove them," Snider said.

Snider said impeaching the officers does not mean they will immediately lose their positions.

If the resolution passes, a senate committee will investigate the charges and hold an impeachment trial, said Pollock Halls Senator Ken Powers.

Powers said he will vote against the resolution.

"Until I have the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt thing, I'm not going to vote to impeach someone," Powers said.

Other senators also spoke against the resolution.

"I think it's ridiculous and unfounded," said town Senator Tracy Maulfair.

Several senators including town Senator Dawn Amig and South Halls Senator Angie Joint spoke in support of Goldstein.

"I think she's doing her job and staying impartial," Joint said.

But Van Horn, the only USG presidential candidate to be charged with an elections violation this year, said he thought impeachments would be just. Although two charges against Van Horn were dropped and three lead to not guilty verdicts, Van Horn said the charges unfairly damaged his reputation.

"The elections court proved that we were falsely accused," Van Horn said. "I do not think (the resolution) is harsh at all."

Van Horn also brought a complaint to the elections court regarding the market value assigned to campaign buttons, which Van Horn said should be less than the current 30 cents. The court did not uphold the complaint, and Van Horn is appealing to the USG Supreme Court.