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Subject: Re: Turnout in Student Elections
Message-ID: <990@milano.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 11:04:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 11:04:41 1986
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Summary: voting while in lines

In article <193@bu-cs.UUCP>, bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> When I was an undergraduate at Cornell there was an on-campus showing
> of Deep Throat the same day as the student trustee election. You
> guessed it, more people showed at the theater than the polls (various
> suggestions followed to either announce L. Lovelace the winner or next
> time hand out ballots at the ticket line.)

UPenn tried something similar.  That is, they put the ballot boxes in the
lobbies outside the University cafeterias, so that one could vote while waiting
in line to get in.  They never managed to get >25%, I think.

-- 
Alan Wexelblat
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