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LAST week Harvard announced recommended changes to the Board of Overseers voting system which are designed to "educate the electorate" and "invigorate the processes" by which Board members are selected. These are noble goals, indeed, but the proposed changes would draw the ballot closer to cronyism than model governance...
...only field a slate of eight candidates, thereby reducing risk of splitting the vote among candidates. A top University official would act as an "executive search director" to recruit candidates. Petition candidates would have to present 800 signatures, instead of the current 250, to gain a place on the ballot...
...changes would also skew the very process of voting in the administration's favor. University candidates would be listed first on the ballot followed by petition nominees, instead of in the currently random order. Harvard would send a report to alumni promoting its slate. Ballots would be counted by the Harvard Alumni Records Office, rather than an independent accounting firm...
...referendum on the November state ballot will ask voters whether the state should be allowed to pay laborers less than the going rate...
...referendum question on this year's ballot would, if approved, close nuclear power plants in the common-wealth because of the hazardous wastes they produce. Supporters say Question Four would make the state use other, less harmful sources of energy...