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From: cuccia@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Nick "Coosh" Cuccia)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Turnout in Student Elections
Message-ID: <12104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 17:58:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 17:58:35 1986
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References: <193@bu-cs.UUCP> <990@milano.UUCP>
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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

One proposal that often comes up in senate here is to put ballot boxes
in each of the dorm units, a proposal that routinely gets stomped on
by the "progressive" majority of the senate; in fact, the last time it
came up, one of the SSC (Student Solidarity Coalition, the old "far left"
political party, now known as Cal-SERVE) said that "Dorm students are 
not progressive enough".

Me thinks that SSC/Cal-SERVE is a little scared of more students voting..