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.
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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
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