Much Paper Work, Time Fill Voting Process
By Stephen Russell
A phenomenal amount of work is required to run the upcoming fall living district election, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, according to Bill Brier, Shawnee Mission senior and cochairman of the All Student Council Elections Committee.
The ASC Elections Committee, appointed by the ASC chairman, supervises the annual fall and spring elections. The committee consists of 13 members, six council members and seven non-council members. It is headed by two co-chairmen, who are also council members.
THE FIRST TASK of the committee this semester was to designate into which living districts each of the living groups on campus should be placed for voting and ASC representation. The classifications, based on last year's classifications, were made by Brier and Sue Sorem, Hutchinson junior and the other co-chairman of the committee, and approved by the committee.
Next, the committee had to collect the petitions and filing fees of all candidates wishing to run for office, both partisan and non-partisan.
After the candidates were officially entered, the committee drew up the ballots, printed them, and then separated them into bundles of 100 for easier handling and counting at the polls.
BRIER SAID all the votes are usually counted by an IBM computer; however because of the larger number of people in some districts this year, part of the ballots will have to be counted by hand.
He explained that the IBM cards presently used for ballots will not hold more than 10 names. Two cards cannot be used for one district since the computer would not be able to register if a student had voted twice by marking both cards. Therefore, special ballots had to be made up this year for the Men's Large district and the Freshman Women's district since they both have 10 candidates entered and the ballots must include a blank space for write-in candidates.
Brier said the ballots for all the other living districts will be on the usual green IBM cards, and the ballot for the Freshman class officers will be on pink IBM cards. In all there will be 14,275 ballots printed, 6,000 freshman class officer ballots and 8,275 ASC ballots.
BRIER SAID the committee members will put in approximately 120 man-hours during the two days of voting. Two committee members must be present at all times at each of the polls which are open. Brier and Miss Sorem will be stationed at a desk set up in Strong Hall with a direct telephone line to all the polls for immediate consultation in case of trouble.
Brier said that besides the two committee members, four poll-workers and two election police are needed to run the polls. He explained the voting process as follows.
The student must present his KU student identification card to the first pollworker, at a table marked no. 1, to obtain a dean's permit card with his name, address, and school on it. He will then present the permit card and his ID and fee receipt to the next table where he will be required to sign a roster. With his name he must also write his student number and address.
THE SECOND POLLWORKER will check the signature on the roster against the one on the student's ID for false impersonation of a voter or illegal voting. If the second pollworker finds nothing wrong, he will imprint the back of the permit card with an ID imprinter, punch the proper number on the student's fee receipt, mark a tally on a tally sheet, and pass all the voting materials to the third pollworker.
The third pollworker will check all the materials, determine from the information on the permit card the proper living district and classification, and instruct the fourth pollworker which ballots to give to the voter. He will then mark a tally sheet according to living district and classification and pass the voter's ID, fee receipt, and permit card to the fourth pollworker.
The fourth pollworker will give the voter the proper living district ballot, and if the voter is a freshman, the freshman class officer ballot. After marking a tally sheet he will pass all the voter's materials to the first election police.
THE FIRST ELECTION policeman will give the voter an electrographic pencil, instruct him where to vote, and hold all the voter's materials while he votes.
Brier said, the voter, in marking his ballot should remember he is to rank the candidates in preferential order, and not just vote for one of them. The ballots will list the candidates for the particular office and provide spaces next to their names for the voter to fill in.
There will be at least as many spaces as there are candidates to allow the voter to rank the candidates from top to bottom, according to his first through last choice. Although not ranking all the candidates would not invalidate the student's ballot, Brier said he should remember that, in the majority of districts, more than one candidate will be elected as representative. According to the preferential system of tabulation used by the council, they are elected in relation to how they are ranked by the voter.
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AFTER MARKING his ballot, the voter will return to the poli- workers' tables where the second election policeman will take back the electrographic pencil, instruct the voter where to deposit his permit card and ballots, return the voter's materials to him, and mark a tally sheet.
Brier said the students and the candidates should remember that campaigning is not allowed within a 50-foot area of the polls, and that buttons, hats, or any other
campaign materials may not be worn while the student is voting.
He added that the two standards, placed in front of Strong Hall and Flint Hall, are the only places on campus where candidates and political parties may post campaign materials, except for in the living groups. Fines of up to $50 or five hours of failing grades may be levied against any one violating this rule, or any one who is caught defacing or placing unauthorized material on the boards.
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