PAGE FOURTEEN THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949 "WA VKV!gttta va Ica v-V SL Electioneers Catch Tabulating Closes Early This Year up on Sleep f Reduced Quota SpeedsCounting The two big student legislature election days have been over a week, but officials are just be- ginning to catch up on their sleep. After the 6,991 ballots were sorted and placed before candi- dates' names on the big horseshoe counting table used in the Hare System of Proportional represen- tation, a quota had to be reached so SL candidates could be elected. NORMALLY the quota would have been the total plus one of all ballots cast, which would then have been divided by the number of offices vacant plus one. This would have totaled 240. The ones are added to prevent ties, according to officials. But to save time, Tom Walsh and Herb Weingarten, both law juniors, and Duane Nuechterlain, last year's SL elections chairman, got together with elections chief Bill Clark and decided to reduce the quota at the beginning of the counting. This was done to save valuable time in recalculating a lower quota as exhausted ballots were discarded. A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION FROM MODERN APPLIANCE THE NEW {ljJ \,f A& \ 5. MIXMASTER 144 . ~GIVES ME 14 " Feather-light cakes .Creamy-fluff mashed potatoes " Oranges juiced in a jiffy All with a turn of the MIX-FINDER DIAL . 10 MIXES MASHES BLENDS WHIPS JUICES BEATS FOLDS STIRS CREAMS The new Sunbeam Mixmaster gives you two great new Automatic features-the Auto- matic Juice Extractor and Auto- matic Bowl-speed control. In addition, it has all the other ex- a clusive Mixmaster advantages that make cooking, baking, E getting meals so fast and easy. You simply Dial your favorite S-recipe. The Famous Mix-Finder dial has all the every-day mix- ing speeds plainly indicated-and right at your finger tips. (1.) JUST THE BEGINNING-You've got to sort 'em before you count 'em. Claire Davis, Leonard Wilcox, Phyllis Rosen, Jim Jans and Hugh Greenberg (left to right) sort ballots before putting all first-place ballots before each of the candidates' 58 names on a huge horseshoe table in the Union. It took two hours to sort the 6,91 ballots. Then the fun begins. A Daily Photo Feature Stories by Peter Hotton and Roma Lipsky Photos by Wally Barth and Carlyle Marshall What a Spot For Christmas Shopping! "STORYLAND and TOYTOWN" on FOLLETTS 2nd Floor - State at North U. * * * * (2.) THE INTERESTING PART STARTS-Bill Clark, elections chairman, talks with Herb Weingarten, who is working a BusAd School calculator to figure out a quota for electing candidates under the Hare System. Novice Legislators To Attend First SL Session This Week EXHAUSTED those which run written in before names. BALLOTS are out of numbers each candidates' (3.) REDISTRIBUTING BALLOTS-After ballbts have been re- distributed according to number preference, Mary Lubeck (left) walks around the table calling off the number of additional votes I each candidate picked up on consequent redistributions. THE N S1iIIIT PIX C: j 1'47 3 t COMPLETE PROTECTION PROTECTION PLUS when you're away from home. / ALWAYS a shirt you can ; E wearTith pride. THEV THAT PEOPLE SEE Clean Tactics I arkVoting Though this year's voting was 22 under the record set last fall, it was only four under last spring's balmy election which was marked by a stuffed ballot at the Engi- neering Arch. This year the only fraud was in petitioning, and the Campus Po- lice saw to it that voters were honest. Eighty-one ballots were invalidated in comparison with "more than 40" last spring. LAST FALL'S elections were marred by the disqualifying of 52 out of 107 candidates whose pe- titions were found by Men's Ju- diciary to be full of fraud and forged names "by the dozen." But the election itself, postpon- ed a week to give re-petitioners a chance to get 50 names again, was an all-time record of 7,013 voters. Read and Use Daily Classified Ads Their theory was that the quota woudl be reduced anyway, so after an hour and a half of arguing the pros and cons of the plan, they dropped the quota 30 votes, to 210. Last year the quota slumped 45 votes and counting dragged on until 4:30 a.m. This year counters got home at 3 a.m. Their only worry was that the "pre-reduced" quota wouldnt go down as far as 210. * * * IF IT DIDN'T, candidates who made it later in the evening would havebeen selected on a larger quota than those earlier elected. "We didn't know what we would have done if it didn't,' one of the lawyers said, "but as it was the quota hit exactly 210 and there was no adjusting to worry about. The new theory had the advan- tage of having the election of all candidates on an equal quota, ali saved counters an hour and a half from last year. Upshot of the plan was that it took an hour and a half to figure it out, thus cancelling out the time that was saved. ACCORDING to the old theory, early candidates would have been elected on a bigger quota than those elected later, but each quota would have been in correct propor- tion. When the ballots were finally sorted, 81 turned out to be in- valid in SL elections alone, mainly because voters didn't read directions on their ballots and wrote in X's instead of num- bers before candidates' names. Another major cause of invali- dations was the lack, of punch marks on ballots. One bright voter even filled in his numbers in the example spaces. One of the Board in Control of Student Publications candidates was chagrined at the overabund- ance of invalidated ballots. "Just to think we lost 30 or 40 votes through sheer carelessness," he moaned. As things turned out, after all the theorizing and arguments, election officials were able to drag themselves home comparatively early in the morning. Twenty-three brand-new legis- the Regents, and more recently, R E CO. lators will start their duties thisteUiest-id lnt okMODIERN PPL ANC CO week at SL's first meeting since the University-wide plan to look the elections. into students' gripes and opinions 115 E. Liberty St. Phone 2-3286 Though 28 candidates w e r e of how the University should be elected, five are incumbents. run. .5Y54SY6'CYl 3SS§ 536'Y M They will have the job of pass- >z;;;;;;;;yo ;o ;o ;;;o ;o ;o;o z;;;;;; ing legislation proposed by fellow politicoes at the bi-weekly meet- ings and working on one of the Legislature's committees. LATEST COMMITTEE to be set up is the Human Relations Coin-v Handmade Table and Bridge Sets mittee, chaired by its creator, Tom Walsh. Though it is not exclusive- o ly an SL project, it is under theo0 Legislature's sponsorship. Members include presidents and chairmen of many impor- 52x52 LUNCHEON SETS 52x52 tant student organizations. Pur- pose is to approach the discrimi-f Hand-embroidered and drawn out. 6 napkins . .. .9.95 nation problem in all campus organizations with a view to in- tegrating them into working to- gether toward solid intergroup 52x52 LUNCH SETS 52x52 cooperation and understanding. Other SL groups include: The Hds NSA Committee, which deals with ' ''H'and-embroidered . .'. 6 napkins.........5.95, 6.95 national student interests; Cam- pus Action and Cultural and Edu- cational Committees, which work36 on general projects concerning 36X36 BRI DGE SETS 36x36 student activities. sun*tv*sHand-embroidered, 4 napkins, sets at 2.49, 2.98, 3.98 VARSITY COMMITTEE, which made pep rallies and school spirit c possible; Citizenship Committee, 0 which handled the elections; and Hand-embroidered GUEST TOWELS Public Relations Committee. 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