NEWS The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 21, 2005 - 7 VOTING Continued from page 1 ballot was counted or not counted." Not all counties in Michigan have transitioned so smoothly. In Wayne County, the selection of a vendor that will supply the optical scanners has led to a disagreement between the county clerk and the city of Detroit. While the county clerk's office has recommended the machines produced by Election Sys- tems and Software, Detroit has requested machines made by Sequoia Voting Sys- tems, another approved vendor. Gloria Williams, Detroit's director of elections, said the ES&S machines are bulky and inaccurate. "If I put the ballot through the machine five times, I might get three different answers," she said. She also said the ES&S ballots may not be large enough to allow for a long list of candidates, leading to potential problems with voters casting multiple ballots. "(Voters) would be discouraged, and it would be a logistical nightmare for election workers," she said. "I can't imagine doing a recount with two bal- lots per voter." The Secretary of State's spokesman Ken Silfven said Wayne County's situa- tion is unusual. "(In) virtually every other county, it's a uniform vendor," he said. The state's plan grants authority to the county to select a vendor, but Silfven said the process is supposed to be a partnership between county and city governments. "The whole process is designed to pro- mote and encourage involvement within the county," he said. The question remains of how the new technologies, once in place, will be updated - HAVA doesn't guarantee additional funding. Michael Traugott, a professor of communication studies and author of a recent study on voting technologies, pointed out the difference between computerized technology and older lever machines is the need for con- stant updates. "Once you use computers and soft- ware, this technology is going to be changing all the time," he said. "Congress thinks of this as a one-time commitment. The pressure will grow for (Congress) to (fund future upgrades), but there's no guarantee that they would step in again." The Secretary of State will be taking public comment on the state's plan for one more week. When choosing a new voting tech- nology, Land rejected direct recording electronic voting system, an apparatus that allows citizens to vote with a touch- screen computer. Silfven said there are many problems with the DRE. He said Land had concerns over the system's lack of a paper trail in the case of a recount. Traugott echoed Land's concerns. "The DRE machines are supposed to eventually be able to print a receipt that can be deposited for recount, but there's been a fair number of problems," he said. Traugott's study examined the effec- tiveness of voting technologies in Michi- gan and Florida during the 2000 and 2004 elections. Traugott said Michigan's voting technologies were centralized, with the state mandating optical scanners in every county. Florida - on the other hand - will use a combination of optical scanners and DRE machines. Silfven said using only one technol- ogy makes the voting process easier and more uniform for voters. "When you just have one system, it's easier for the state to conduct voter edu- cation outreach because you can focus on that one system." In looking at these technologies, Trau- gott's study did not detect any negative side-effects of either system. "If people didn't like the technology, it could produce lower levels of turnout," Traugott said. "We don't seem to detect that yet." Traugott did find that as spoiled votes declined with the transition to better technologies, Democratic candidates benefited more than Republicans. "That wouldn't be unexpected because of who we know tends to associate with the parties and who would tend to be more confused at the polling place," he said; referring to the low education and income levels of some Democratic sup- porters. "The new technology eliminates some of (this confusion)." BUS Continued from page 1 Detroit Institute of Arts, a walking tour of public art in Detroit, a tour of the Matrix Theater and visits to two galleries in southwestDetroit. She said the Culture Bus helps her students learn more about the city of Detroit. "(The culture bus) exposes them to the largest and most well-established Latina/o community in South- eastern Michigan. It demystifies Detroit, a place that few of my students have ventured into and about which they have many misconceptions." Since the inception of the Culture Bus program, it has enhanced the learning experience for participants by conducting more tours with faculty members as guides. The Culture Bus also offers students rare opportuni- ties, such as visits to the temporary exhibit "Behind the Magic: The Influence and Impact of Walt Disney and Disneyland" at Dearborn's Henry Ford Museum. The trip includes attending a conference on Disney's legacy and a tour of the exhibit. Communications Studies lecturer Brad Taylor said he plans to take his "Visual Communications" class on the trip. He said the conference is a "once in a lifetime opportunity" because Marty Sklar, vice chairman and principal creative executive for Disney, will be the key- note speaker. Not all Culture Bus trips are class requirements. One such trip was last month's visit to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. Along with the muse- um visit, the trip also included a tour through the Arab American neighborhood, dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant and dessert and Turkish coffee at the Sinbad Caf6 in Dearborn. The Culture Bus has grown from initially offering trips only to Detroit to traveling to locations in other parts of Michigan and even other states. The upcoming "Halloween Weekend with the Art of Chicago" tour is the first overnight Culture Bus trip. It includes a tour of the city's architecture by boat, several museum visits and a viewing of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Nancy Lautenbach, coordinator of marketing and programs for Arts at Michigan, said she wants to allow residence hall advisors to organize customized Culture Bus tours. She said the trips would be a great way for RAs to conduct social activities because they "get to go to shows and museums at very discounted rates." KAY Continued from page 1 intelligence is a lack of accountability, he said. Kay said few officials in U.S. intelligence agencies are willing to tell policymakers what they don't want to hear, and even fewer are willing to admit they don't know something. Kay said he is also concerned about the large num- ber of failed states that may acquire WMDs out of des- peration. "I'm convinced the dominant focus of international politics in the next 25 years is going to be learning to deal with a failing-state system," he said. LSA freshman Daniel Albertus, who attended yes- terday's lecture, agreed with Kay that U.S. intelligence gathering is flawed. "In order to overcome the problem of nuclear prolifera- tion, we have to overcome the problems of the system," he said. But Kay said preventing proliferation is not only a task for the United States. "It's an international thing, but we must lead it," he said. FBI Continued from page 1 The group's chairman is Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University. Spanier said much of the change Gutmann described dates from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "The university community gener- ally has come to feel that they need to be part of the solution," Spanier said. Gates recalled going to see Vice President Dick Cheney and Andrew Card, President Bush's chief of staff, to discuss problems foreign students were having obtaining visas after the attacks. "I made the comment that this isn't the '60s and '70s. The universities want to be helpful. We understand the threats to the country and, unlike in the past, there is a real opportunity for cooperation that is beneficial to both sides," Gates said. The FBI has described the board's mission as offering advice about the traditions of openness, academic freedom and international collabora- tion. Mueller has said the board also could serve as a recruitment tool for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The presidents see the exchange as an opportunity to press their own con- cerns about the treatment of foreign students, the international exchange of technology and security issues at laboratories that work with anthrax and other deadly substances. Yet the terrorist attacks have not completely rehabilitated the FBI's image on college campuses, several presidents and historians said. The bureau was badly damaged in the 1970s by revelations about its COINTELPRO program, begun under J. Edgar Hoover and aimed at disrupting civil rights, student and dissident groups. Even since Sept. 11, civil libertari- ans and student activists have voiced concerns that the bureau again is trying to stifle lawful protest, and that the FBI's presence on campuses could chill open exchanges. COMMISSION Continued from page 1 very accessible.... We're the best in the world." Barry Toiv, spokesman for the Association of Ameri- can Universities, said federal government intervention in the inner workings of colleges would be a "disaster." He explained that the autonomy of American higher education is what sets it apart. "The proof is in the pudding," Toiv said. "But that said, the world changes, and we always need to ensure that we're doing the best job that we can." Toiv said the commission has expressed no desire to rein in or homogenize universities but added that the AAU would be keeping a close eye on it. Duderstadt emphasized that although the federal gov- ernment may act on the body's recommendations, uni- versities will ultimately be responsible for implementing meaningful changes. He added that Spellings has stated specifically that she has no intention of robbing universi- ties of their independence. "The tradition has been that the federal government has stimulated and enabled change," Duderstadt said. "I don't think that the government will be Big Brother or Big Sister in this case, but will be the facilitator." University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said the University is looking forward to the commission's recommendations. 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