Ann Arbor vote dis pute resumes
The Michigan Doily-Tuesday, November 29, 1977-Page 5
S pies real concern
for foreign students
(Continued from Page 1)
tion results. On April's ballot fr
mayora an City Counci ofices, ths
absentee voter made an unidentifiable
mark in and around the circle that
would indicate a vote for Beicher.
Henry argued that the vote should
have been counted. -
"The guiding principle is the intent of
the voter," said Henry. "There is
clearly a cross within the circle which
is not obliterated, marked over or
scratched out. With all of this
hullabaloo about the rights of non-
voters, it sets mny teeth on edge when
this voter's rights are being violated."
Grace, however, contended that the
voter's intention is not clear. "He may
have wpnted to blot out or obliterate the
ballot." Grace pointed out that there
were o'ctually two ballots in April's
election. One concerned the council
race and the mayor's race and another
was a ballot proposition on road
repairs.
"PERHAPS THE voter may not have
cared who his mayor would be. Maybe
he only cared that his roads would be
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repaired," said Grace.
In response to Henry's argument that
there was a cross within the oircle,
Grace said: "Implicit in the term
crossing-out is the idea of crossing."
A second disputed absentee ballot
was mailed in from Ireland. The vote
for Wheeler was not counted by election
officials because a tab at the corner of
the ballot was detached. Grace argued
that the ballot should be counted.
"The voter is not informed that if the
corner is pulled the ballot must be
voided"' said Grace. "All of the
istatutory requirements were met, the
tab was returned in the envelope with
the ballot. It wotid be wrong to disen-
franchise her."
HENRY ARGUED that, because
"the law clearly requires that the voter
return the ballot with the tabs on," the
spoiled ballot should remain uncounted.
'A third absentee ballot in question, a
vote for Belcher, was counted by elec-
tion workers. On the ballot the world
"Councilperson" was scratched out and
changed to "Councilman." Henry
argued that since the intent of the voter
was clearly to vote for Beicher, the vote
should be allowed. -
Grace disagreed, saying that state
law declares that any "distinguished"
ballot shall not be counted., "In this in-
stance there can be no doubt but that
the intent of the voter was to distinguish
the ballot," said Grace.
THE FOURTH AND fifth disputed
absentee ballots were those returned by
a husband and wife in each other's en-
velopes. The two votes for Wheeler
were counted in the election results.
Henry made no mention of these ballots
in his closing arguments. He later said
that he had merely forgotten, but that
his position, as stated in the brief he
filed for the law suit, is that the two
votes should not be allowed.
In the first two couants of his lawsuit,
Belcher asks that two machines be
recounted, two absentee votes cast for
Wheeler be deducted from the election
total, and one added to Belcher's total.
Wheeler is seeking to add one vote to his
total and to subtract one vote from
Belcher's total. The mayor also does
not want the two voting machines to be
subject to recount.
Outside the courtroom before the
hearing beg an, the two la wyers
speculated that the possibility of a new
election this April may have been
raised because of an appeal filed with
the state supreme court on behalf of
University student Diane Lazinsky.
IN OCTOBER Lazinsky refused to
tell thie court for whom she voted in the
election. Earlier this month the state
Court of Appeals agreed with Kelley
that 20 improperly-registered voters,
including Lazinsky, had given up their'
right to a secret ballot.
In his appeal to the state supreme
court, Lazinsky 's attorney Edwr d
Goldman cotntented that the Court of
Appeals had erred in its oo that a
new election would be too costly to the
city.
"I suggested in my brief that that
opinion is incorrect because there is a
City Council election in April, and the
mayoral election could simply be
placed on the ballot,'lsaid Goldman.
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Fear of the Savak is most visible
during demonstrations, when students
wear masks, they say, to prevent hav-
ing their pictures taken by Iranian
agents. Photographs could be used as
proof of political dissent.
Despite sUrveillance activities, Iran-
ian students feel they have more free-
dom of expression in the U.S. than they
have at home.
"IN MANY WAYS the situation in
Iran is worse because we have no laws
to protect our civil liberties and it is
never safe to say anything against the
Shah, not even within your own
family," a 23-year-old engineering
student explains.
Nevertheless, he warns, caution is
necessary - whether students are ac-
tively involved in dissident groups or
are merely sympathetic to them. "The
Savak watches the people on top of the
student organizations more, but they
never forget the people on the bottom,"
he adds.
According to the students interview-
ed, any activity that can possibly be in-
terpreted as anti-Shah will be punished
once the student returns to Iran.
" TH E RE IS A blacklist against
which your name is checked once you
enter the country," a representative of
the Iranian Student Association of UM
and EMU says. "If your name is on it,
you are in for trouble."
Since American law enforcement
agencies are not restricted in their
dealings with foreign intelligence or-
ganizations, many Iranian students say
they feel threatened by what they call
close cooperation between the FBI, the
CAand avak.
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Griffiths touts benefits of ER A
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Congressional District (which in-
cludes Detroit) for twenty years
from 1955 to 1975. During that time
she was responsible foZ the inclu-
sion of the sex discrimination clause
in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
sponsored legislation attempting to
eliminate discrimination against wo-
men.
Griffiths recalled the passage of
the Civil Rights Act, and the proce-
dure of including a provision protect-
ing women:
"He (the chairman) ' offered the
amen~ment and the reaction was
hilarity. There was great laughter.
The funniest thing ever said in
Congress was that you couldn't
discriminate against women," she
said.
"LET ME SAY, I don't think they
intendeid to give any women jobs.
They couldn't say: 'We don't want to
give black women jobs - keep them
like white women.' If they had said
that we don't intend to give black
women a vote, that place would have
gone up in smoke."'
"We - black and white women _-
took a tiny step forward," Griffiths
continued. "But the laws are full of
inequalities, they are still full of
inequalities." -
"When you say policemen need to
be six-foot three inches tall, are you
saying that you want to hire the
Pistons? she asked. "Or are you
saying that very few women are
six-foot-three inches tall and tha t you
don't want to hire women?"
"SOMEWHERE or other you have
to count wha t both of us do," Griffiths
said. "You have to count it if you are
a traditional wife or a working wo-
man.
"All of you together ought to think
about discrimination," she suggested
to the audience. "We have a little
time to correct it. You're young and
you're going to make changes. You
should work on it. Add your voice to
human justice.
)
MSA officer election
postponed 10 days
By DAN OBERtDORFER
.The Central Student Judiciary (CSJ)
yesterday voted a 10-day temporary re-
straining order for today's scheduled
election of officers for the winter term
Michigan Student Assembly (MSA).
The restraining order came at the
request of Scott Kellman, former MSA
president and currently an at-large
member of the assembly, after CSJ
deadlocked and postponed a decision on
a suit brought earlier in the evening to
allow 17 representatives appinted by
schools and colleges in the University to
keep their seats.
CSJ ruled last March that those seats
must be given up because they are in
conflict' with a constitutional bylaw
guaranteeing every student "equality
of the weight of his vote" in all elected
student boards-.
"They made a very moral decision,"
Kellman said. "The people who sit on
MSA for the entire term should have the
right to elect their own officers."
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