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gamegockT Thursday, April 14, 1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Vol. LXY1II, No. 44 nnnnHBi b f-J baigi?sl^^^^sBmr^^MBy-i'v&. JS ggjffiMWM t |BHB| pPfri **' # - ^ ijBfififiBa&S. H P^I^M'^SItm! Bm^Bmaa - HHBB . v - . -^.^-^. 4, pg'^ gjs^ ra B wbhh *m< r :l ..v --r.^ "****"' - ,wBBBBW^^ ~^ .Tr-'^^irjrf- " ,'i' ^8l|. - ^ ve^i^SI^K^^^SSlSSHiifc ^1 i JbB lags tTiimlr!"*" l"'**"?**"'KTHBTOTBH^Brm''^^H-TffiP?WTfSS^ ' } WmtT ~J-'li7~-"^\3 "- 71-" \t ^ IZ'l^-i^ r c . A Dt. VMnSMraHnBS^B. INwftraMm fry Mar* to???r TW OAMBCOCK ? Rnn-nff election declared invalid Irregularities alleged in voting procedures By JOHNNY LOTT Gamecock Staff Writer The USC run-off elections were invalidated Tuesday by the Campus Court in a hearing at the Russell House. Larry Hudson, USC Supreme Court justice, said that he saw irregularities in the voting procedure in the run offs Monday. At the hearing, Hudson said he saw a poll worker look into a voting booth at the Russell House during the run offs while a student was voting. He said he brought charges as a result of witnessing this and other incidents. "This hearing was not directed at any of the candidates," he said. JOHN KAIMNOS, chairman of the SG elections commission, said SG Atty. Gen. Steve Brown will file an appeal with the USC Supreme Court. The court will meet at 3 n m tnrinv tn HwiH^ r.. uphold the Campus Court's ruling, Chief Justice Russell H. Putnam said. Because he filed the charged with the Campus Court, Hudson said he will disqualify himself from the Supreme Court's deliberations. Another incident that moved Hudson to file charges against the election commission include an instance in which a student didn't vote because he lost his ID card two weeks before the run-offs, yet his name was crossed off the election sign-up sheet. In election procedures, a student's name is crossed off the sheet when he votes. The student, Roger Booth, testified that he lost his ID card two weeks before the election, and so didn't vote. Basil Savitsky, a USC student, also testified that he saw a student put his head into a voting booth while another student was voting. Savitsky said the voting student remained in the booth for about 15 seconds after the other student left. PUN NIO, AN off-campus student, testified that she went to vote at the Carolina Coliseum . At the poll, she waited for about ten minutes before she called ivapinos 10 ten mm tnat tne poll was unattended. Bill I^eslie testified that he and Mark Pitts, both of whom supported presidential candidate Doug Kotti, randomly selected 11 names from a copy of the computer printout of eligible voters. Leslie testified that he contacted five of the 11, and one of these said he hadn't voted, even though he was listed as having done so on the election sign-up sheet. Leslie said he couldn't remember the student's name. But, Kapinos said, "As far as I know there was no frati/l hoi Al? 1" " uuuuihui nuuiu uiuiikc uicuuil'uiiic m me eiecuon. See ELECTION, page 3