After the late-night reversal of Monday’s registration deadline extension for students wishing to register for Student Union positions, the SEC voted Tuesday to grant leniency to potential candidates who had completed part of the process, extending their deadline to Wednesday at 5 p.m.

In a decision Monday night, the rules chair at the SEC had found the earlier deadline extension, which aimed to give more students a chance to enter the Union race, to be in violation of SEC rules. The decision would have given the only slate to complete the registration process by Monday’s deadline an unopposed election so long as they met judicial and academic checks and conformed to election guidelines.

Instead, Tuesday’s 4-0 vote with two abstentions will allow the slates that completed part but not all of their application a chance to finish it and register for the elections, according to a statement released by the SEC Tuesday. Some of these potential candidates were operating on the assumption of a deadline extension and submitted materials after 5 p.m. on Monday.

Before Monday’s deadline, “several potential candidates turned in their signed hardcopy Candidate Statements of Intent and Affirmation and their deposit checks to the SEC dropbox in the Office of the Dean of Students,” the statement said.

The SEC’s vote allows potential candidates who completed part of the process to finish completing registration materials 48 hours from Monday’s deadline, or 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The SEC began notifying potential candidates of missing registration pieces in emails on Tuesday.

“These potential candidates began the application process in good faith, and it is unfair for the SEC to penalize potential candidates for abiding by information advertised by the SEC,” the statement said.