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Voters’ Guide Commissioners expect clean elections By Kelly S. Brown STAFF WRITER Although a reporter for the student newspaper at the University of Hous ton is in hot water for voting nine times earlier this month in a campus election to prove the shortcomings of the school’s electoral system, Texas A&M’s election system is “cheater- proof,” an election commissioner said. Co-chairman of the election com mission Kristin Hay, a junior psychol ogy major, said the possibility of someone voting more than once at A&M is virtually impossible. Hay said certain checks and bal ances are set up in the system to assure a clean election. “For example, for students to vote they must have their student identifica tion card,” Hay said. “It will be punched in some area of the card, so if a student went to another polling site the worker would obviously notice the hole in the card indicating they had vo ted.” Voters must ‘bubble’ in their social security number on their ballot or their vote will not be counted, Hay said. “They’ll also have to write-in their classification, what college they’re in, what their living area is, if they’re an on- or off-campus voter and what poll ing place they’re voting at,” Hay said. “All this information will be processed and double-checked by the computer. All ballots will be counted twice by the computer.” Student Government, RHA and APO each will have two representa tives at each of the four polling sites working one-hour shifts. An election commissioner will also be at each of the polling sites. The commissioners include: Hay, co-chairman Perry Lis ton, Steve Lyssy, Mike Delgado, Gayle Bittiker, Angie Pollock and Ka ren Gibson. Hay said the voting violation at Houston could not happen at A&M. The day before Scott Streater, a re porter for the Daily Cougar, voted at each of nine polls during a student government election, he notified elec tion officials. Two days later his ac count of how and why he voted more than once appeared in the Daily Cou gar. The University of Houston Stu dents’ Association officials filed a complaint against him several days later citing violations of school policy. William Linsley, a communications professor at the university, was quoted in a March 8 issue of the Houston Chronicle: “Presuming he broke the law, he’s not different from any other student just because he’s a member of the press. But his intent is very impor tant here,” Linsley said. “He went about it in good faith to correct what was an incorrect voting process.” Students with a current Texas A&M student i.d. can vote at the following campus locations on Thursday. Polling places Polls open Academic Building 9 a.m. —6 p.m. Blocker Building 9 a.m. —6 p.m. Kleberg 9 a.m. —6 p.m. MSC 9 a.m.— 8 p.m. Page 2/Wednesday, March 29,1989/Voters’ Guide Photo by Scott D. Weaver Student Senate Senate Chairmen Academic affairs • Kerrie Neck Finance • David Wieland Student Services • Christi Choat External Affairs • Kenny Gossett Agriculture At-Large • Kelly Spencer • Kelly King •Jason Baird • Jeff Darby Sophomore • Stephen Weber Junior • Dawn Wayne Senior •Jason D. Grier Engineering At-Large Junior Senior No candidates reported. • Brent Kettle • Chuck Keffer •KurtThomlinson •Tim Dillman Sophomore •Timm Doolen • Jeff Starr • Coy Kouba • Steven G. White • Drew Miller •Joel Bittick •Jeff Chapman • David Corder Geosciences At-Large Junior • Keith Komar No candidates reported. Sophomore Senior No candidates reported. No candidates reported. Architecture At-Large • Philip B. Chen •Tim Hagen • Mary Beth Haggerty • Marc K. Lopez •William Higgins Sophomore No candidates reported. Junior No candidates reported. Senior No candidates reported. Business At-Large Junior • Jason Peterson • Meredith Ann Brown • Angie Arrona •Chris McClain • Steve Skipworth •Darren A. Miller Sophomore Senior •Jennifer Darr •Thomas J. Donna •Tom Stauch • Diane Purinton • JayT. Garrett • JoJo Yiu Education At-Large No candidates reported. Sophomore No candidates reported. Junior No candidates reported. Senior • JohnT. Hubert •G.G. Grant Liberal Arts/ General Studies At-Large Junior Sophomore No candidates reported • Priscilla Buelow • Brennan Reilly •Tricia Heithecker • Danny West Senior • Damon Smith •Phyllis Janysek • Jonathon A. Poe • Katherine Hinson • Kirsten Baker •Danellie Pena •Jimmy Beard •Jeff Shipley Science At-Large Junior • Gregory S. Couger No candidates reported. • Charles Edward Phipps Senior No candidates reported. Sophomore No candidates reported. Graduate At-Large • Mark E. Inman • Bruce Minchey • Storm Kuykendall Vet. Medicine At-Large • Brian Kingston Voters’ Guide/Wednesday, March 29,1989/Page 7