10 Wednesday, November 11, 1987 / University Daily Kansan Nation/World House bill to set poll-closing times Supporters say networks' early projections discourage Western voters The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House, concerned that television network projections of election winners discourage voter turnout in Western states, voted 208-189 yesterday to require a simultaneous polling time of 9 p.m. EST in presidential general elections. Both sides agreed that the standard poll closing, which will apply to every state except Alaska and Hawaii beginning next year, won't work unless the major television networks honor their pledge not to project election results before the polls have closed. The House rejected, 305-99, a substitute plan by Rep. Bill McColum. R-Fla., that would have forbidden local election officials to announce presidential results until 10 p.m. EST. McColum's amendment was denounced as "censorship" and a "ridiculous, unworkable" proposal. The bill's supporters argued that early projections of presidential election winners, based on "exit poll" interviews with voters leaving polling places, discouraged voter turnout and might affect the outcome of state and local races, especially in the West. 'Over the last few decades, the integrity of Election Day has been eroded.' Al Swift U.S. representative "Over the last few decades, the integrity of Election Day has been eroded," said Rep Al Swift, D-Wash., co-sponsor of the bill with Rep William M. Thomas, R-Calif. "Thousands of voters have been told that the election has been held without them, and that their votes don't count." Swift dismissed complaints that the bill represented "federal tinkering" with the right to vote. "It preserves the right to vote before we're told it's all over," he said. Supporters said that there was extensive evidence that early network projections of Ronald Reagan's landslide victory over thenPresident Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election influenced Western voters to stay home and might have altered the outcome of state and local contests. But critics of the bill put much of the blame on Carter's early concession speech on Election Day. Speaking for the opponents, Rep. Gene Taylor, R-Mo., said the bill was a bad idea. "It's going to cause a great deal of trauma, confusion and extra expense in the conduct of our elections throughout the nation," he said. Rep. Bill Frenzel, R.Minn., called it "a RuBue Goldberg delight" that would confuse voters. unfairly exclude Hawaii and Alaska, disregard non-presidential elections and disrupt airline schedules on the West Coast. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that a uniform poll-closing time would cost state and local governments an extra $2 million unless they adjusted votes hours to avoid overtime for polling-place workers. Under the House-passed bill, polls throughout the continental United States would be required to close at 9 p.m. EST in presidential general elections starting in 1988. This means that polls would close at 9 p.m. in the Eastern time zone, 8 p.m. in the Central time zone and 7 p.m. in the Mountain time zone. Draft resister released pending appeal The Associated Press LEAVENWORTH — Convicted draft resister Gillam Kerley was released from federal prison yesterday afternoon, pending a decision on the appeal of his case, a prison official said. Jeff Duncan, executive assistant to the warden, said that Kerley, 26, was released on a personal recognizance bond. Kerley's attorney in Madison, Wis. Lester Pines, said Monday that the U. S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ordered late Monday that Kerley be freed. The Chicago court heard oral arguments on the appeal Monday. Kerley, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison law student, was the director of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft. Kerley was one of 18 men indicted on charges of failing to register for the Selective Service. He spent $41\%$ years battling the federal government before he was convicted by a U.S. District Court curry in Anil. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March 1985 that the federal government could prosecute only those young men who publicized their refusal to register for the military draft. The justices said the policy did not violate free speech or equal protection rights by "selective prosecution." In May, U.S. DISTRICT Judge John Shabaz gave Kerley the harshest penalty handed down to a resister since draft registration was reinstated in 1980 — three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. 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