Word: schacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Election Commision Co-Chairman Dan Schacter, who graduated last year, said last week that his successor and a former member of the commission both rigged the spring elections to help candidates Kaivan Shakib, the current council vice chairman, and Monica Byrne-Jimenez, a senior who lost...
Incumbent Shakib, a junior, received few votes at the beginning of the election process, and most council members thought he would not be re-elected, according to the Columbia Spectator. Schacter said Shakib quite suddenly received an overwhelming number of votes on the last day of voting, while the current election commission co-chair was manning the polls...
...addition, Schacter has charged another member of the commission with miscounting the ballots to award Byrne-Jimenez a seat on the council. A recount revealed that Byrne-Jiminez placed eighth rather than third, as originally claimed. Two weeks after the elections, the commission member resigned...
...Schacter also said that if all the ballots recorded during last spring's elections were valid, 10 percent more people voted than in 1986. The rise indicates that ballot boxes were probably stuffed, he said...
...avoid problems, some buyers hire outside consultants to advise them on purchases. New York Lawyer Esther Schacter actually tore up a contract a client was poised to sign. Says she: "The worst thing a user can do is to rely solely on the seller." That is a lesson used-car buyers learned a long time...