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Some other candidates had complained because Monaghan's inked-in name was featured so prominently on the ballot, Calabrese said...
...Monaghan approached the election table Wednesday afternoon and asked that her name be added to the ballot forms. An election official added her name to an unknown number of ballots. Ellen Burkhardt '79, co-chairman of the Eliot House Committee said yesterday she ordered the election halted when she saw the altered ballots...
Burkhardt said she discussed the issue with Laura Gordon Fisher, senior tutor in Eliot House, and with Joseph H. Yeager '79, one of the organizers of the Constitutional Convention. They decided to delete Monaghan's name from the ballot and to reschedule elections for Thursday and Friday, she said...
...Monaghan said yesterday the incident was "just a matter of confusion." She said she had thought her name would be on the ballot because she had mentioned her plans to run for office to Burkhardt before the official ballots were printed...
...stress I consider it a fair decision. The rules were written down," Monaghan said...