Hare System Complicates Process Preferential Ballot-Counting Gobbles Time
By Stephen Russell
BY STEPHEN S. KIPPEN
County officials notes from the All Student Council's (ASC) fall living district elections will not be as easy as one, two, three.
This year's tabulation will be altered some because of the two districts, men's large halls and freshman women's, which have to be counted by hand. Usually the districts are counted in the reverse order of how they are listed in the ASC constitution. However this year the districts with the least number of votes will be counted first, and the two districts to be counted by hand will be left till the last.
ALSO. BRIER expects the tabulation time to be longer, with the two districts being hand-counted. The counting will begin as soon as the polls close Thursday night and will possibly last until 6 a.m. Friday.
Upon reaching the counting room, the ballots first will be separated into three groups, IBM ASC ballots, ASC ballots to be counted by hand, and the freshman IBM ballots. Next the ballots will be separated according to the living districts and the different freshman class offices, president and vice-president on one ballot and the secretary and treasurer on another, by a machine which utilizes the holes punched into the cards for this purpose.
ONLY THE ballots which the committee is counting are left in the open, the others being bundled and locked into a ballot box until the committee is ready to count them.
In counting each district the committee first determines the number of representatives to be elected from the district and the quota needed for the candidates to be declared winners.
The number of representatives to be elected is determined by counting all the ballots in a district, both valid and invalid, and then referring to a table in the
AURH Desires Student Aides
Interviews are being held this week with students who desire to work on the staff of the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH). Ron Rardin, Leawood, Kansas, graduate student and chairman of the AURH and John Hill, Waverly junior and vice-chairman, are conducting the interviews.
The new staff recruits would help the 40 AURH representatives plan the various activities for the residence halls.
"AT OUR OCT. 2 and 3 Leadership Conference we expanded our activity program," said Rardin. "If we are to carry through with the activity plans then the staff force must be expanded also."
The AURH is an association of residence halls on the KU campus. The group plans such activities as the "Spring Fling" for the residence halls, in addition to pursuing several service projects.
Presently the AURH is engaged in a service project that concerns the compiling of a residence hall phone book. The book would list the phone numbers of hall and floor officers.
ASC constitution which gives the ratios of the number of positions to be filled according to the number of ballots cast.
THE QUOTA is determined by dividing the number of ballots cast by one more than the number of positions to be filled, in each case adding one to the result and disregarding fractions.
The ballots are then placed into an IBM computer which uses a sensing device to pick up the marks made on the ballots by the electrographic pencils to separate them according to first-place votes. From this point the counting is done by hand by the committee members.
ALL THE candidates receiving the determined quota or more than the quota of the first choice ballots are declared elected. If any candidate receives more than the quota, the surplus ballots are redistributed according to second choice, starting with the last ballot credited to that candidate and proceeding downward until his remaining ballots are equal to the quota. If the second choice on a ballot has already received the
quota, the ballot is distributed according to the third choice, and if the third choice has also received the quota the ballot is distributed according to the fourth choice, and so on.
IF ANY of the ballots in excess of the quota show no clear preference among the candidates not yet elected, those ballots are left with the first choice and an equal number of ballots showing such preferences are transferred. All transfers thus made proceed from the last ballot credited to that candidate downward. If two or more candidates have received more than the quota on the first choice, transfers are made starting with the candidate receiving the largest number of first choice
votes and then progressing downward.
When all the ballots have been thus sorted the one candidate who is then lowest on the poll is declared defeated and his ballots transferred, each to the candidate indicated on it as the next choice among the continuing candidates. Thereupon the candidate who is then lowest is declared defeated and all his ballots similarly transferred. Thus candidates are declared defeated one at a time and all of their ballots transferred.
IF AT ANY time during the redistribution, candidates to the number to be elected have received the quota, any transfer of ballots in progress when the last quota is reached is completed.
But all continuing candidates are declared defeated and the election ended.
Also, if at any time all the ballots of any defeated candidates have been transferred and it is impossible to defeat another candidate without reducing the remaining candidates below the number still to be elected, all the remaining candidates shall be declared elected and the election ended.
After all the ballots for each position are tabulated, the ballots are bundled according to each district, and placed in the safe in the basement of Strong Hall After 30 days, they are removed from the safe and destroyed.
10 Daily Kansan Thursday, November 11, 1965
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