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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004
BOE officials hold voting forum
Discuss polling process and locations
BY ARLEY WOLBER
STAFF WRITER
Officials from the Orange
County Board of Elections fielded
questions and presented informa
tion about voter registration to a
sparse crowd Monday evening in
the Student Union.
The meeting was held to inform
students about the voting process
and places where they can vote
locally.
“We want students to under
stand how they can vote early and
how they can keep their registra
tion information updated,” said
Carolyn Thomas, director of the
Board of Elections.
Thomas headed the meeting,
which was attended mostly by
affiliates of UNC’s Civic Education
Consortium. The consortium also
sponsored the event.
BSM
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sion for BSM members through the
Student Recreation Center.
To help members of the BSM
relax, Houston has scheduled for
students from a massage school in
Siler City to provide back and neck
massage training.
Houston said her campaign was
strong because of her initiative pro
posals and its broad scope.
MINORITY VOTE
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tion. Both candidates support the
No Child Left Behind Act, though
Kerry has called the act under
funded and has criticized its focus
on testing standards.
While poor education and low
income are general problems for
minorities, different minority
groups will be voting on specific
issues on Nov. 2.
Courtney Richardson, a mem
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“A lot of people are really excited,
but they don’t know what to do,”
said Meghan Hall, vice president
of the group. “We want people to
leave the session with a sense of
relief or a sense of knowing.”
Philip Blackett, president of the
group, said he thought the forum
was successful in that aspect.
“I could sense people were more
confident,” he said. “They came out
of the meeting knowing a lot more.”
Hall said a poster with precinct
information to inform registered
voters where to vote will be posted
in either Lenoir Dining Hall or the
Student Union.
“It’s basically so students don’t
have an excuse not to vote,” she
said.
Hall said students can vote early
at the Morehead Planetarium
through one-stop voting, which
“The most important thing I’m
proud of about our campaign style
is we didn’t just campaign to mem
bers of BSM,” she said. “The last
thing I want to do is to not affect
the UNC community, even though
this is at the BSM level.”
The BSM will endorse both can
didates for Homecoming Court
automatically.
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ber of Carolina Indian Circle, said
research has shown that Kerry
plans to improve ties between the
U.S. government and the sovereign
nations of Native Americans, while
Bush hardly acknowledges them.
And for Latinos, immigration is
a key platform plank.
Sean Marimpietri, a member
of Carolina Hispanic Association’s
executive board, supports the
loose immigration policy outlined
in Bush’s platform, but he said he
suspects it’s driven more by busi-
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Some other questions Thomas
fielded involved the process for
submitting absentee ballots, how
a typical voting process would go
and which balloting system would
be used in the election.
Thomas said Orange County
uses optical scan voting machines.
Voters fill in their choices with a
felt-tip pen, and scanning machines
read their choices.
Many students have expressed
concerns with voting registration
cards, Thomas said.
“The biggest concern from stu
dents who call is that they call and
want to know where their registra
tion card is,” Thomas said.
She said that in particular, the
board has ended up with a number
of duplicate registrations because
of voter impatience.
“We have a problem with peo
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ask specific questions about the
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ness interests than altruism.
More Latino immigrants mean
more low-wage workers for big cor
porations, Marimpietri said. “I think
the more immigrants the merrier,
but it’s unethical to open borders
like that and not provide any sup
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appointment of a number of federal
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pie registering twice when they
don’t get their registration card
quickly enough or can’t access
their registration information
on the (State Board of Elections)
Web site.”
Thomas said voters can check
their registration information at
the state board’s Web site, http://
www.sboe.state.nc.us.
Potential voters also can check
other information about voting
and see a list of one-stop voting
sites, she said.
Blackett said the consortium
plans on holding a similar forum
for next year’s elections.
Officials said anyone interested in
voting in Orange County can obtain
registration information or locations
of polling places from the county’s
Board of Elections Web site at http://
www.co.orange.nc.us/elect
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community in all decisions and that
they have not looked at the Merritt
Mill location for very long.
“We are now just talking about a
vision —a vision of what we want
to do,” she said.
The IFC announced earlier this
year its intention to move from its
current location at the corner of
Columbia and Rosemary streets.
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of racial profiling. “The toll of segre
gation and slavery isn’t going to be
erased in 40 years,” he said.
In August, Marc Morial, CEO
and president of the National Urban
League, publicly challenged the two
candidates to participate in a live,
televised debate on minority issues.
To date, the league has received
no substantial response, said Ricky
Clemons of the NUL.
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she said. Carucci added that the
program was “absolutely every
thing I could have imagined.”
Tara Kachgal, a doctoral stu
dent in the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, said
she came to the program because
of Bomstein’s national acclaim.
“She throws up a lot of questions
about gender identity that we need
to answer," Kachgal said.
Carucci said the goal of GLBT
SA’s events for Coming Out Week
is to “make the lesbian, gay, bisex
ual, transgender community more
visible on campus.”
Bornstein will lead the inter
active Gender Exploration and
Performance Workshop at 2 p.m.
DIPHI
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resulted in the amassing of more
than 20,000 volumes by 1895,
which were eventually turned over
to libraries at the University.
Although DiPhi is no longer
the student government or the
sole outlet for student activities,
it offers a quality not many other
organizations have —a lack of an
agenda.
“Rather than endorsing par
ticular views, we want to support
discussion in a way that encour
ages people to share their points
of views,” Shoun said.
The groups’ debates follow a
parliamentary model in which the
members, called senators, deliver
prepared speeches that offer the
proposed resolutions.
Although formal, the debates
resemble friendly bantering, and
afterward the floor is opened for
students to speak on other top
ics.
Some recent topics that have
been discussed include “God is
dead,” monarchy as a valuable form
of government, the acceptability
of land mines in warfare and the
awareness of sexuality and sexual
practices in America.
“If we were just a debating club
that had certain social events, we
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“Living our dreams
and owning them
that’s what I
think coming out is
about”
KATE BORNSTEIN, ACTIVIST
today in room 3413 of the Student
Union.
Also today, GLBT-SA and the
Black Student Movement will co
sponsor a forum to discuss coming
out issues within the black com
munity at 8 p.m. in the recreation
room of Morrison Residence Hall.
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“We know that the
things we do are
heirs 0f ... balanced
debate and
discussion”
ABBY SHOUN, DIPHI SENATE LEADER
would seem random and hodge
podge,” Shoun said. “But we know
that the things we do are heirs of
the tradition of balanced debate
and discussion.”
DiPhi usually hosts the first stu
dent body president debate during
elections. The organization also
collaborated with the Campus Y
to host a forum Sunday as part of
Race Relations Week.
Max Spitzer, an alumnus
and graduate student at Duke
University’s School of Law, noted
little change in the organization’s
character since he was a member
from 1996 to 2000.
“It’s the same personalities
coming back in different forms.
What is essential has remained
the same: being able to say what
you want without being overly
politicized.”
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