The 2025 Spring General Election has been extended until Friday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m., the UNC Board of Elections announced Wednesday evening.
The extension comes with the UNC student supreme court case ruling 24-004 Cuppett v. B.O.E. Undergraduate student Liam Cuppett filed a complaint alleging the BOE violated the Joint Code of the Student Government’s “Early Voting” criteria. The code states that early voting should last two days, beginning three days before an election and ending one day before the date.
This year, early voting was postponed and eventually cancelled due to issues with the integrity of the in-person ballot box in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union.
The box was found unwatched with ballots next to it, allowing potential repeat voting. Any ballots cast in-person on Feb. 8 were nullified.
Prior to the decision, students were able to vote from 5 p.m. Feb. 11 to 5 p.m. Feb. 12. The decision to the case was uploaded to the UNC Student Supreme Court website at 5 p.m. on Feb. 12, extending the voting window for two days.
“The Board of Elections failed to properly administer the election,” the decision stated.
The opinion in the ruling also stated that there was no time for the court to hold hearings or fully explain its reasoning, because they said that if they delayed their decision, they “will have to decide whether to rerun the entire voting process after the public has already moved on from this saga.”
“Yet if we make a decision now, it will cause such great upheaval as to thoroughly tar the results of the election,” the opinion stated.
All votes cast between Feb. 11 and 12 will be included in the election results. Students can continue to vote until 5 p.m. Friday. The BOE will certify race results, including the 2025-26 student body president-elect, by 11:59 p.m. of the same day.
