University Daily Kansan, April 12, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
Page 8
Election invalidated; hall to cast new votes
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Wednesday night's hall government election at McCollum Hall was invalidated yesterday because of low turnout, complaints about election procedures and the omission of one candidate's name from the ballot, the hall president said yesterday.
Applications for that election will be accepted at the McCollum front desk from April 12 until noon on April 18.
Brett McCabe, the president, said hall government officers met last night and decided a new election would be held April 24-26.
McCabe said only about 150 of the hall's nearly 850 residents voted in the election, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Several residents said they didn't have enough time to cast their ballots. McCabe said.
ONE RESIDENT, John Slaughter,
Belle Plaine second-year graduate
student, said, "We only had about an
hour to vote, and that time didn't fit
into a lot of people's schedules.
If there had been more time, a lot more
people would have voted."
Some candidates and voters also complained that the way in which candidates' names were placed on the ballot favored the Action 85 candidates for each office. Action 85 was the only coalition in the election.
Seven hall government offices were to have been filled in Wednesday's election. The offices are: president, in-hall vice-president, president of the University Column at Association University Residence Hall meetings, two social co-chairman, treasurer and secretary.
HALL OFFICIALS would not say which candidates had been unofficially elected Wednesday night.
"A lot of people complained that the Action '85 candidate was always the first name that appeared," said
Chele Tijburg, Overland Park sophomore who ran for hall president.
The candidate whose name was left off the ballot was Aul Taj, second-year graduate student from New Delhi. India
He said he had turned in an application to run for hall treasurer and was shocked when friends told him that he would be on the ballot the night of the election.
Wanda Wood, Waverly sophomore in charge of the election, said Jain's application must have been lost at the hall front desk because she never received it. By the time Jain called her to confirm his candidacy Tuesday night, the ballots already had been printed, she said.
JAIN SAID, "I called Wanda Tuesday night and she told me I could run. She never told me that my name wouldn't be on the ballot."
But Wood said, "After Jain called,
I tried to get in touch with him before
the election took place but I couldn't.
"I'm glad the new election was canceled, but get a better deal and so will everyone."
McCabe said he thought Jain had submitted an application and was entitled to a fair election.
Wood said the hall officers would meet all candidates for the new election to discuss ways to make the election more fair for candidates and voters.
"I don't think the new election or any new procedures will cause residents to change their vote," she said. "I'll just be farer."
Ken Forrester, Salina senior, said the same person in the new election.
"Of course the election should have been invalidated if a candidate didn't get on the ballot, but it won't change my vote." he said.
But some candidates said they disappointed to see the election invalidated.
Tijibur said she and other candidates were told late Wednesday night by a hall officer that they had won. But she said no one told her or others that the election had been invalidated.
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