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Monday, February 28, 1977
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Election debris
From page one
Wednesday evening, shortages occurred in the class officer ballots.
The shortage continued during the evening. Folls in Oliver, Naislmith, Lewis and GSP-Corbin Halls had to be reopened Thursday night.
BECAUSE THE committee had allowed only one-half hour to transport the boxes from the day polls to the night polls, the committee right opened about an hour and a half late.
As a result of the delay, no check was made on ballots that remained from the day polls before the ballot boxes were transferred to the night polls.
Flynn said he couldn't estimate how the ballot选举 and delay had affected him.
Oliver Hall opened 45 minutes late Wednesday night and had only 35 sophomore candidate baskets, even though he actually comprises freshmen and sophomores.
RUTH BENIEN, Oliver Senate candidate, said about 150 people voted at Oliver this year, compared with about 250 last year.
Steve Leeben, student body president,
predicted that if the ballot shortage and
time delay had been avoided, the committee
had drawn a vote less 5,000 voters to the
polls.
The shortage of ballots and distribution problems were unforeseen by the committee, but in its preparation for a close meeting with the committee anticipated other problems.
The committee, to indicate that no horseplay would be allowed in the election, Feb. 6 drafted an interpretation of its instructions placed in the Senate Rules and Regulations.
THE OPENING of the statement giving the committee's purpose, said, "It is necessary to prevent political excesses from surrounding the electoral process with a carnival air through the introduction of the rules that have no proper place in that process."
The committee interpreted its powers to include the ability to prejudge an event for some reason.
When the committee announced its interpretation to the candidates Feb. 8, a dispute began about whether the committee had overstepped its powers.
Steve McMurry, chairman of the Senate Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee (SRRP) and Avanti coalition campaign manager, said the Senate would allow the Senate to new policy with either SRRP, of which it is a subcommittee, or the entire Senate.
But no other approval was sought or desired by the Elections Committee, McMurray said, because "the middle of the country is still being drawn to disagreement with the committee."
**MEMURY ALSO said that the phrase including "carnival air" was to have been deleted last fall because it was so vague, but more recently it looked to make more immediate revisions.**
"We wanted to throw out the crap, and line was part of the crap" he said.
McMurry resigned Feb. 11 as SRPK chairman because of the controversy and lack of support from the party.
Leben said the carnival atmosphere phrase was only a preamble and wasn't intended to give specific powers to the committee.
But Flynn, supported by Tedde Tasheff,
former student body president, and Steve
Owens, former vice president, said the
committee had acted within its power.
The committee split on whether the interpretation was ill-timed. The interpretation came four days after the Senate filing deadline.
THE NIGHT the interpretation was announced to the candidates, a complaint
For three weeks, Avanti sophomore class candidates had been planning to inflate a hot-air balloon in front of Strong Hall, and a week before the committee's interpretation, they had received the University Events Committee's recommendation. Feb. 9, the Elections Committee said the
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Feb. 22, after two hours of debate, the committee voted to fine each of the Avanti sophomore class candidates $15. Under the Senate rule, the committee has the authority to fine violators from $2 to $50 and the committee offices—cr both—for campaign violations.
THE CONTROVERSY over the fine was just one of many problems within the system.
Committee members, who had to find poll workers to fill 390 man-hours, had failed to find workers for 50 man-hours by the night before elections.
As a result, the committee that night called for last-minute volunteers and often had them do so.
Carolyn Duzer, committee member,
said that the committee attempted to fill the
--time slots earlier, but that students who commit themselves for a specific time.
Flynn said a training session for poll workers had never been planned because committee members told him it would have been impossible to get them all together.
A complaint filed Thursday said committee members—who under Senate rules were to be nonpartisan—had actively campaigned for candidates, wearing T-shirts and campaign buttons and distributing campaign materials.
polls workers had read the instructions.
voters were wrong bellouts and
some were not.
THE ONLY instruction planned for the poll workers was on a mimeographed sheet of general polling instructions, and Flynn and Kagan checked Wednesday indicated few
The buttons and stickers worn by
members at the Feb. 1 Election Conference.
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after a warning from Flynn. He said that most members had decided which candidates they would vote for when the committee began its election work, but denied that their support had influenced committee decisions.
NO ACTION was taken on the complaint, but Flynn said it would be considered when the 1977-78 Elections Committee revised election rules for next year.
The ballot count, which started at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, took seven and a half hours
because of extra care taken to get an accurate count, Flynn said.
In counting this year's presidential ballots, one reader read to four tabulators, who after 50 ballots compared their counts. The readers were not identical, the ballots were recounted.
Flynn said that although this method was always used, it was especially important this year because the race was seen as potentially close.
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