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...field for the top spot began with three, as Garcia and Kelley faced off against Jessica G. Ranucci ’10 in the initial vote held last week. No candidate won a majority after the first ballot, which polled the current officers and representatives of each of PBHA’s 77 programs, members said...
...commenced between Kelley and Garcia, the top two vote-getters, and Garcia was initially announced as president. (PBHA officials said they could not disclose vote totals...
...automatic recount was held that resulted in a different vote total, according to Frances M. Tompkins ’09, the outgoing PBHA president. Because the officers could not ensure the security of the ballots since the initial count, a re-vote was scheduled for the weekend...
Kelley described the experience as “busy and stressful and emotional.” To ensure the security of the re-vote, which was held on Friday and Saturday, PBHA officials traded shifts as poll-watchers and voters were asked to produce identification. The votes were held in a ballot box that was continuously monitored. Overnight, the ballots were kept in a lockbox. When the final ballot was tallied, Kelley was declared president, putting the folklore and mythology concentrator in Mather House at the helm of the century-old public service group...
...caucus with the Republicans. Unfortunately, a tangled web of party interests among Democrats prevented this from happening. According to the New York Times, President-elect Obama, apparently interested in promoting party unity, has “signaled” his interest in retaining Lieberman’s vote, while Sen. Chris Dodd is reluctant to weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which...