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From staff reports
Computer problems caused a delay in the announcement
of the results of Tuesday's Student
Government elections.
This year's balloting was done without the-use of
voting booths because of their use in Saturday's
Republican Primary. A computer system,
programmed by USC Computer Services, was used
and results should have been available by 10 p.m.
. Tuesday.
S(1 PRESIDENT PETER Haeseker said all information
had been entered into the computer, but a
problem within the system had made it impossible
for total votes to be read out. Because of the size of
the computer system, the problem was difficult to
determine, but a malfunction with the counter or a
paper caught in the machine could be a factor, he
said.
"We really don't know anything," Haeseker said,
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Paul Reeves, elections commissioner, said a
professional election programmer offered to handle
the voting system, but the price he asked was "much !
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mission had the choice of using Computer Services or
hand ballots.
Haeseker said hand ballots would have increased
the possibility of error in vote tabulation. Reeves said
the system used was successful in that only 32
mistakes were made on the computer ballot sheets.
KKEVES SAID NO decision has been made concerning
Thursday's planned run-off election. "We
can't say anything right now because there are many
questions that need to be answered, not only this
(program malfunctioning)." Reeves would not say
wnai me prooiems in quesnon were.
vSources close to the elections commission expressed
concern that some legal aspects of the
elections had been violated.
John Foster, SG attorney general, said he had
signed the ballots and was witness to them being
programmed into the computer.
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