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 -L 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. (Continued from Page 1) 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. F I Griffiths touts benefits of ER A Ro~I BURNS DRUM CLII NIIC. WEDNESDAY NOV. 30th 5:00P.M. (~continued Irom Page 1) 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). 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