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...study from the Kennedy School of Government reveals that the party of Jefferson and Jackson actually faces a systematic disadvantage in tight races. Democrats—and especially Hispanic, low-income, non-English speaking, less educated, and young voters—are more likely to miscast their ballots. At least one out of every 400 votes are accidentally cast for a candidate other than the one the voter intended to support, the working paper says. The paper, posted on the Kennedy School’s Web site last week, used information from the 2003 California recall election?...
National elections may be over, but Harvard undergraduates have a another ballot to cast: the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) presidential campaigns will begin when the campus returns from Thanksgiving break. In the last year, the UC has been restructured and substantially improved. Without the Campus Life Committee, UC money has been redirected to House Committees—whose budgets have increased from $3,500 to $4,500 per term—and to student groups, while campus-wide social events have been placed in more capable hands.This new, streamlined UC now needs to find...
Bobby includes a chaotic scene during the California primary [Kennedy was shot that night at a victory party] in which voters are warned that a new type of ballot comes with the risk of snafus like hanging chads...
...Adelman ’08 and SAC vice chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, both of whom have been active members of the UC since their freshman years. Adelman’s absence reduces the number of female candidates on this year’s presidential ballot. Last year’s presidential election had two tickets with female vice presidential candidates, including the ultimately successful team of John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07. This year, Wimberley is the only female in the group of candidates. Currently, only eight...
...will make receipt submission mandatory and will institute a rotating visiting system whereby UC members will check up on all parties receiving grants. Also at yesterday’s meeting, UC reps voted to include a referendum on greenhouse gas emissions on next month’s UC presidential ballot. The proposal would call upon Harvard to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 11 percent from its 1990 levels by 2020. The ballot question will also ask students to pledge “to do [their] part to realize these reductions” while at Harvard. The legislation, sponsored by Lowell...