Word: ballots
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...office has requested general information about the election, including ballot packets sent to alumni and vote counts, said Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who is the University official dealing with the attorney general's office. Steiner said Harvard has complied with the requests...
More than three months ago the alumni submitted the complaint to the attorney general charging that Harvard had unfairly campaigned against three candidates nominated by petition for a place on the election ballot for overseers. The three were running for the 30-member governing body on a platform calling on Harvard to divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa...
...complaint said that a letter included in the official ballot mailing to alumni last spring constituted electioneering by the University because it urged alumni not to vote for the divestment candidates. The letter was signed by Joan T. Bok '51, then president of the overseers. But Harvard President Derek C. Bok later conceded that he had initiated the letter and that Joan Bok, who is no relation to the president, had only signed...
Finally, alumni charged that Harvard may have tampered with the vote count in the election. Midway through the ballot-collecting process for the election--after the controversy had intensified--Harvard hired a Boston accounting firm, Coopers and Lybrand, to count the ballots. But the University had already received and opened a portion of the ballots, prompting the complaint that the count may have been skewed...
...line of inquiry by the state office dealswith the charges of ballot tampering, according toa senior administrative official. The official,who asked not to be named, said that Harvard isseeking a letter from Coopers and Lybrand statingthat the same five candidates won in the pool ofballots received by Harvard at the beginning ofthe election as those received directly by theaccounting firm after it had taken over the ballotcount...