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the Seahawk/December 5, 2DDD Fiasco getting students interested in the election Heather Brady lUustmtnn by r,' ->t Tre fiaaf-i Briefly... Library Exam Schedule To accommodate students during exam time, Randall Library will be open Thursday from 7:30 a.m. until midnight on Friday and from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday. The library will also be open from Sun day, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. until Thursday, November 14 at 10:00 p.m. Special activities funds deadline approaching The Appropriations Committee would like to remind student organizations that any special activities fund requests for events during the Spring semester must be on the agenda for one of their upcom ing meetings in January. Meetings are Monday, January 22 and Monday, Janu ary 29. Blood drive held today UNCW Volunteers wiU be sponsoring a blood drive today, from 10:00 a.m. un til 3:00 p.m. in the Warwick Center Ball room. Staff Writer As the candidates scramble to one-up each other through the court system and voter frustration with the election grows, students are becoming more aware of the election process and the election fiasco may succeed in curbing voter apathy among young vot ers. Currently the U. S. Supreme Court is tak ing written arguments from lawyers of Bush and Gore in the decision to overturn a Florida Supreme Court ruling that permitted recounts surpassing the deadlines designated by state law. Both candidates chaige that the other party is attempting to steal the election through selective vote counting in Florida and are woiking to paint their own parties as the sole defender of a newly vulnerable democ racy. According to Steven Thomma of Knight Ridder, neither side is presenting all of the facts of their own operations. Bush chaiges that Gore and his party are attempting to throw out valid absentee bal lots when in fact only some absentee ballots were blocked because they did not meet the legal specifications according to Florida law. Gore is charging the republican intimi dation caused thousands of votes to go un counted yet he only sought recounts only in three heavily democratic counties. His party then suggested expanding the recount to a statewide manual recount after the deadline for such actions had expired. Political Science professor Roger Lowery said the faults of the election lay most heavily with individual states for using extremely out dated technology in counting and creating ballots. “The election is now and will always be too close to call. The unfortunate re.sult is that whoever is declansd the winner will not re ally have been elected the winner,” Lowery said. “Though the problem of inaccuracies in ballot counting due to human and mechani cal enpor has always been a problem; the sig nificance of difference in the popular vote has allowed a winner to be declared with a high degree of certainty in the other elections of the last century.” Some students said that the tug-of-war over the presidency has decreased iheir re spect for the candidates. “1 think it has been acatty election. Gore should just step down and accept the results,” sophomore Mary Peacebrown said. Surveys conducted by the political sci ence club revealed that approximately 50 penxnt of students surveyed felt that the Hec- toral College should be abolished due to the complications of this election. According to Lowery this abolishment, though possible, is highly unlikely because the legislation would face more than enough representation in both houses to be blocked. The current system of an Electoral College gives advantages to both the larger and smaller states by allotting graduated num bers of electors for each state. Many analysts are interested in how the current fiasco will affect voter turnout in the next election, especiaUy among the young voters who voted for the first time in No vember. John Kaiser, president of the Coaserva- tive Leadership Group, said he feels that this year's elections will do more to interest stu dents in future electioas than discourage them from voting. “it seems rather apparent that this [elec tion] should serve to make students, wher ever they stand on the political spectrum, more resolute in the knowledge that it is their solemn duty to vote. Their vote can and does count,” he said. 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