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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 11, 1963
Politics Is a Game of Numbers at KU
Bv Fred Frailev
The wise campus political party should have several mathematicians on its executive committee. Politics, always a game of numbers, is doubly so at KU.
The number of All Student Council representatives elected this week can range from 13 to 46, depending upon how many students spare five minutes to cast ballots.
Should only one ballot be marked in each of the ten living districts, 13 representatives will be elected. The votes of almost all of KU's 10,500 students will be necessary to elect 46.
THE ASC's election procedures are so involved that 16 single-spaced pages of the council's constitution are needed to explain it.
The latest major change in the election code occurred last spring, when it was decided to guarantee each living district at least one seat or a seat for each 1,000 persons in the district. Thus, the unmarried-unorganized district, which has 4,132 students and which last year elected two representatives, will now elect at least four.
THE NEW amendment, however.
does not prevent a district with a fourth as many students from also electing four representatives. Another section of the elections bill gives an advantage to those district voting heaviest. The mathematical formula used is 200+ (R) 25, which translated means;
0. 300 units
0-200 votes ... 1 seat
201-425 votes ... 2 seats
426-675 votes ... 3 seats
676-950 votes ... 4 seats
951-1,250 votes ... 5 seats
1,551-5,555 votes ... 6 seats
1,251-1,575 votes ... 6 seats
So far the unmarried-unorganized district to have more than the four seats guaranteed it on the ASC, more than 950 votes would be necessary.
THE COMPLICATED part comes in counting votes cast in preferential voting system. Students mark candidates on their ballots in the order which they wish them elected.
To be declared elected, a candidate must reach the "quota" for his district. The quota is determined by dividing the number of votes cast by one more than the number of representatives the district is entitled to elect, plus one. A district with 900 students which cast 452 votes would
get three ASC seats and would have a quota of 114.
Should no candidate reach the quota on the counting of first preference votes, the contestant with the fewest number of votes is eliminated. His second preference votes are then redistributed to the other candidates. This continues until the required number of aspirants reach the quota.
WHEN A CANDIDATE receives more votes than the quota, the excess number of ballots are selected at random from his stock and redistributed to the next choices.
Further befuddling the process is the possibility that during redistribution, a candidate already declared elected will get additional votes. Since his vote total cannot be more than the quota, these new votes are given to the next preference, and so on until a candidate still under the quota is reached.
Last fall's fraternity district election, in which the 1,149 voters elected five representatives, serves as an example of vote redistribution. Reuben McCormack led the six candidates with 218 votes, followed by Jim Thompson with 210, Bob Tieszen
with 199, Don Magdanz with 193. John Bumgarner with 176 and Bob Bush with 153.
THE FIRST FOUR candidates topped the 192-vote quota and were automatically elected.
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Official Bulletin
TODAY
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road.
Graduate Discussion Group, 7 p.m. St.
Sturgeon Catholic Student Center 1910
Stracey Road
Tran van Chuong, 8 p.m., University Theatre. "Inside Viet Nam."
TOMORROW
Epicopalic Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m. 5 p.m.
Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Strattford Road.
Inquiry Forum, 7 p.m. St. Lawrence College Student Center, 1915 Stratford Road.
**SNEA** 7.30 p.m. 303 Bailey. "School
Caring and its Relationship to the
Teacher."
Western Civ. Discussion, 9 p.m., St.
London College Student Center. 1915
Stratford Road
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
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Result: A new Ford-built 3-speed torque converter—ideal "traveling companion" for our new, hotter, medium-displacement V-8 engines
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Simplified gear case design and a one-piece aluminum casting result in a lighter, more compact transmission-one that has fewer components and is extremely easy to maintain. Built to precision tolerances akin to those in missile production,the new automatic transmission is truly a product of the space age, and is typical of technical progress at Ford. Another assignment completed; another case
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