Madan went on to lose the election to Naegele. Naegele received 15 votes, Madan received 11 and five people abstained, said Stefan Fletcher, the newly elected vice president for internal affairs.

Curran’s report cited numerous issues, including conflicts between Madan and another representative. It also stated that Madan didn’t follow certain procedures for scheduling meetings and appointing someone to fill the open position of parliamentarian on the executive board within allotted time.

Numerous council members voiced outrage that the report hadn’t been presented sooner. Curran said he had just finished the report earlier the day of the election.

According to COGS constitution, elections must be held at the second to last regularly scheduled meeting of the year. Members were concerned about the delivery of the report during the election and wanted to postpone the vote. Because of the constitution, this wasn’t an option.

“I would strongly urge that this election was falsified and should be invalidated for said positions,” Madan said. “It was completely dishonest.”

Sheila Kelly, outgoing vice president for graduate welfare, said the election was the first time such accusations had come up in a meeting during her tenure.

“I’ve been involved with COGS for three years — two years on e-board,” Kelly said. “This is first time that I know of in the past few years that something like this has happened.”

Naegele said COGS has tried to resolve the issues internally by informing Madan of its complaints.

“It obviously flustered and upset a lot of people and is causing us to investigate how we do some of our own processes,” Naegele said. “I wasn’t aware that the report was going out — I didn’t know until it was handed to all of us.”

Madan said he didn’t know about the report until minutes before the meeting began.

“When it lists many false allegations for months before, why was it not addressed before?” Madan said.

Marie Kaigler-Reese, a COGS representative from the School of Journalism, withdrew her candidacy for the positions of vice president of university relations and treasurer in protest.

Earlier this week, she submitted a letter of complaint against COGS to university officials. She also drafted a suggestion for a code of conduct policy for COGS, which was not submitted to university officials, Kaigler-Reese said.

COGS has no such policy, she said.

Madan and Naegele will co-chair the next COGS meeting, scheduled for April 15.

Naegele said she didn’t know if a discussion of the election will come up during the next meeting. An agenda has not been finalized.

“I’m hoping that if an agenda item comes up it will not escalate like it did last week,” she said.