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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 21,
Kansan Comments
How Your Votes Will Be Counted
How are you going to vote Thursday?
When you have decided whom you would like to see elected, it is important that you mark your ballot correctly to indicate your decision. In this case $X$'s don't count.
The voting system for KU student elections is known as the Hare system of proportional representation. Theoretically, it operates to carry representation in the same ratio of minorities to majorities which exists in the total voting population. This system does not apply in filling a single office such as the A. S. C. presidency.
Here is how it works: You will be instructed on the ballot to put the number one after your first choice, two after the second and so on for as many candidates as you wish, regardless of the number to be elected. Be sure to follow instructions or your ballot will be void.
A quota is calculated to find the least number of votes which will elect each of the required number of officers without electing more. This quota is determined by dividing the total number of valid ballots cast for that position by one more than the total number of positions to be filled.
For instance, if four men are to be elected A. S. C. representatives from District I (the College), and 2,000 valid votes are cast for them, 401 votes would be necessary to elect each representative.
If any candidates have more first choice votes than the quota they are declared elected and each extra vote over the quota is transferred to the second choice listed on that ballot. Since the ballots are piled in the chance order in which they are first counted, taking the required number of excess ballots from the top of the stacks provides the random selection necessary to give each candidate a fair opportunity.
If the second choice on the ballot has already met the quota, the vote is transferred to the third choice instead. When these transfers give other candidates enough votes to meet the quota, they are declared elected.
If all the offices are not filled by this transferred vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is declared out of the race and his second choice votes are transferred in the same manner as the extra ballots.
If necessary this process is repeated until enough persons have received quotas to fill all of the offices.
But when is proportional representation not proportional representation? Answer: when a "boss" plans the voting for his machine. Obviously, a number of ballots showing the same order of choice will elect more persons than the same number of ballots with several candidates chosen in various orders.
One way to beat machine politics is for all democratic-minded citizens to go to the polls. Your vote can help. Be sure you make it count.
Alamada Bollier
It was like a joke joint in the state capitol when House members considered a state song. They just put Representative Nickell in the slot and out came "Home On The Range."
Peace—it's "blunderful."
"United we stand, divided we fall,
is certainly true of prices these days.
One student has advanced the theory that the biggest thing wrong with K. U. is that too many women are working for their MRS. degree.
The purchaser of a post-war home can find little comfort in reflecting that his is "the house that jack built."
Note on Lippy Durocher—Happy Chandler estrangement: "There's many a gap 'twixt the 'Lip' and the 'Hap.'"
August 1, 1947, is the last day on which World War II veterans may reinstate lapsed National Service life insurance term policies without physical examination, upon payment of two months' premiums.
'Tut Tut-Drive On'
Dear Editor--will
An A.V.C. Critic
In a time of great national emergency our government called on all able-bodied men to prove their right to be called American citizens by protecting the rich heritage handed down to them from courageous forefathers. We, the veterans on the Hill, answered that call.
We fought for our nation, our government, our families, and perhaps mostly for ourselves. When we returned, we were honored and praised by our fellow-Americans. In addition to these pleasing rewards we kept all the privileges which we as Americans so dearly cherish—the right to choose our form of government, the four freedoms, and many other privileges enjoyed only in America.
This reward should have been enough. But our government and neighbors wanted to show their appreciation in a more concrete way. They established the V. A., gave us on-the-job training, unemployment compensation, and the best and cheapest life insurance. They provided hospitalization, gave us loans for building homes and businesses, and first priority on war surplus property. They also attempted to help veterans secure an education.
Our government had already spent more on us than it could afford. Yet, it threw common sense to the winds and established the great dole. They offered each veteran a subsidy of $65 per month to help pay living expenses while he continued his education.
In addition, the government offered to pay tuition, books, and fees up to the amount of $500 per year. At the end of each school term we get a paid vacation—sounds like manna from heaven.
As you may have guessed by this time, this letter is directed at the A. V. C. I was interested in the A. V. C. when it was organized and had planned to become a member. But this organization is a discredit to its members, to the University, and to every American veteran.
This group should have chosen the Gimme-Gipme Bird as their mascot. Their symbol should have been the outstretched palm.
When the A. V. C. can use the American eagle and all it stands for in place of the Gimme-Gimme bird; when the outstretched palm becomes the clenched fist, drawn back to protect peace and America; then and then only will the A. V. C. become an organization to which our University can point with pride, an organization which I and every veteran on the Hill will gladly join and whole-heartedly endorse.
Ted Joyce College Sophomore
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