Ian Rosenberger and Takkeem Morgan were found not in violation of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) election code yesterday, making them the official president and vice president-elect.

The winning ticket, as well as runners-up David Davis and Sara Ryan, had been charged with submitting questionable receipts on campaign T-shirts they purchased. The USG Supreme Court ruled that the tickets did not violate the elections code when they obtained better prices than other candidates.

The elections code states that the price paid for an item purchased must have been "available to the general public."

When elections commissioners called the businesses where Rosenberger and Davis purchased their shirts, they could not receive the same price the tickets claimed on their receipts.

The court's decision stated that the prices offered to the two tickets did not create an unfair advantage over their opponents.

"The efforts made by placing a phone call to the manufacturer do not fairly represent the efforts made by [the tickets] to discount the price of the item," the ruling stated.

Had Rosenberger and Morgan been found guilty and fined more than the amount left toward their election spending limit, they would have been disqualified.

"It was good to see due process," Rosenberger said last night.

"I'm just really excited now for the next 11 months of my life," he added, referring to his presidential term.

The decision came three days after court hearings on the cases.

At the hearing, elections commissioner Mike Carroll testified that he investigated the possible violation by calling the business where Rosenberger purchased the shirts. Carroll called under the guise of a student looking to buy a mass amount of shirts for a student organization.

He said the lowest price he could get for T-shirts was $4.50 each, not the $1.60 each Rosenberger had claimed.

Carroll did not, however, mention to the owner that he was obtaining the shirts for USG or that he had a spending limit.

The price the Rosenberger-Morgan ticket paid for the shirts gave them an extreme advantage over other candidates, Carroll said.

Tim Dorman, who was third place in the presidential race, told the court he purchased T-shirts from the same business where Rosenberger's shirts were purchased.

He said the lowest price he could get for colored T-shirts was $4.50.

Lee Langston, the ticket's counsel, showed the court a statement from the business' owner that stated he would given the price of $1.60 to any campaign that discussed the spending limit with him.

But current USG President Rubina Javeri's campaign manager told the court her shirts were purchased from the business and cost $3.50 per shirt.

Finally, Rosenberger testified that he was concerned about any possible elections code violation, so he spoke to elections commissioner Abbey Willis. He said she told him there would be no problem if he got a better deal than other campaigns.

"I knew that I got a mad deal on T-shirts ... and that it could be a problem -- and it was," he said.

Rosenberger said he helped the business for a couple hours by carrying boxes and watching them work.

Langston said the ticket did not obtain a deal that was unusual enough to create an unfair advantage.

"If you wish, you can essentially throw out the results of the USG election and pick ... the next USG president," Langston said during the trial.

Rosenberger and Morgan will officially take office next week.