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...capture a controlling majority in the 487-member National Assembly. But failure to form a solid coalition dooms the leftist parties to defeat. Because of the intricacies of the "scrutin majoritaire," the French electoral system, center and right parties could combine to beat out a divided left in the runoff elections...
...member of the Freshman Council and its Election Committee, I was disappointed by the coverage in the December 1 edition of The Crimson of the freshman CHUL runoff election. The story contained several misleading statements. First, the story implied that the Elections Committee had not made provisions for those ballots with only one vote. In fact, the Committee had planned to invalidate those ballots in advance. The difficulty arose when several of the candidates mistakenly advised voters they need not vote for two candidates. Many of these voters proceeded to cast one-vote ballots, thereby creating confusion in determination...
Secondly, the Committee decided, contrary to The Crimson account, that if single-vote ballots were to be counted, they could only be counted as one vote. These incidents were unfortunate and regrettable. The second runoff is scheduled for Monday, December 12. The Elections Committee has taken steps to assure that such misunderstanding does not reoccur. These include a set of rules which shall be made available to all candidates and to The Crimson. I am certain The Crimson, as well as all parties involved, join me in hoping for a smooth, uneventful rerun. Steven G. Noles '81 Elections Committee Freshman...
...Freshman Council elections committee must restage Monday's runoff election for representatives to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) because it did not know how to count 21 per cent of the ballots cast, Archie C. Epps III, Dean of students, said yesterday...
George Y. Hessler '81, a member of the committee, said yesterday that of the 732 ballots cast, 575 named two candidates as requested, 140 named only one candidate, and 17 named two candidates of whom one was a write-in. Write-in candidates were not eligible in the runoff...