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? - r-iu s Volume LXX, No. BB University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Mar. 12, 1980 SG eleci Computer malfunctu legality of procedun From staff reports I" 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 j and results should have been available by 10 p.m. I . Tuesday. [j S(i PRESIDENT PETER Haesoker 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 rlrkt /ir?rv\ Vmi4 n r> I fi i li # L-wt /i/m ?? uliui mini;, uui ct iuui 1 uiil, i iwn wiui iut luuiiici ui it paper caught in the machine could be a factor, he said. "We really don't know anything," Haeseker said, "it is out of our hands, but we'll be working on it all night." Paul Reeves, elections commissioner, said a professional election programmer offered to handle the voting system, but the price he asked was "much higher than we could afford." The Elections Com mission had the choice of using Computer Services or hand ballots. Haes^ker 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. REEVES 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 what the problems in question were. Sources close to the elections commission ex pressed concern that some legal aspects of the lj elections had been violated. |j John Foster, SG attorney general, said he had I signed the ballots and was witness to them being I programmed into the computer. | g|g|| _' **ffi j^fy : :^ ~r -{--;.-V'_,, 5^'^~'j^Sr 1": 1111' fltah* ^PSw ' ;:^ B? ' ' I i S '- Ij-| ~ jBkL ^B&&M3^^^HHBflBHI^nn^HBHHBHUBHBBBBBBw yKly:-.\^i^^MlMMWMn?WMaMMiMmBMgi^1BBB?B^^?gam KbM.:^^^H^^^HBH^KlKnnMnHBI^nBD B aBBPHBBPWi^HfflBBHBHBHP*^^ $ b S'" Bfe ?r ?m ^R&'- ai Weary-looking SQ vice presidential Candida Tuesday'8 voting was delayed by comi tion results < oris cause delay; ?s mentioned Late breaki # MJF MM t nr. . _ .. Larry aeuner ana iony turner were declared preliminary winners of the SG presidential race at 3:15 a.m. Jeff Floyd and David C/egg were the preliminary winners of the vice V H i^i11 ""Hf 4w j; ^'v^ % ' ? ,J m. f "V? > Tony Turner iri ijtt&is V^NHHjfe^kjLg^V .. ^Mfc?; ^'-^^Z-^r:i^-^^^r^>-- -'^ -.; 'V-.^^/v ^ ^^.\v^_;-::;V;V:-:yv": "' :'t^^r Hl^Pw v,1^'#i'V -1/V;V-'v.-ii'?'V' i.'-'itiv: ' te, Jeff Ffoyd (right), joined in the 5-hour wait for puter malfunction. delayed inn rociilfc I presidential race. Runoffs for SG constitutional offices will be held Thursday, March 73. | Other election results were not available. I :'v ^ skjOZ. 1 j ij Larry Kellner I \:^&?^Xr*77;.:-(;"-,; ' v,--- r''j;^1!.-'^"^:^ " '-"M :vr^i>Vr" - H** ^ | IqpBpil * j, ^^w^if.j ~ ^ IIWI . ^ nrnliminflrv fil^ffinn fbftiiltc Tho m itrnmfl of pi Wfffii**!*-* J w>ww??Via WMicv, w Iivt W