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From: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Turnout in Student Elections
Message-ID: <213@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 14:48:15 EST
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.213
Posted: Tue Feb 25 14:48:15 1986
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References: <193@bu-cs.UUCP> <990@milano.UUCP>
Reply-To: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <990@milano.UUCP> wex@milano.UUCP writes:
>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
>ARPA: WEX@MCC.ARPA
>UUCP: {ihnp4, seismo, harvard, gatech, pyramid}!ut-sally!im4u!milano!wex
>"No wife, no horse, no mustache."

It has been recently proposed here, that the number of voting locations
be changed from 8 ( the number of Major residence halls + the Union ) to
1.  Why they do that, when turnout is never more that 15%....

In any case, it might not really matter, the Student Union at B.U.
changed it's constitution and took away it's programming functions.
It now only decides policy....