Thursday, September 3, 1981Th9 Daily Tar Heel3
About ballots, staff at polls
J acolbson receives" proposals oml electioias
By KEN MINGIS
DTI1 Stan Writer
Newly 'appointed Elections Board Chairman Mark
Jacobson received several proposals Wednesday designed
to eliminate problems that have arisen in past elections.
Senior board member Thomas Sharpe met with Jacob
son and proposed changes in the balloting procedure,
the rule of paper ballots and the staffing of polling places.
Jacobson said he wanted to take a new look at the pro
posals. "Essentially, little has been done so far," he said.
"I think that these proposals will have to be re-evaluated
by the new board."
One proposal calls for replacing the paper ballots now
used with automated machines. ''This type of system
would be far superior. Instead of taking days to count
the ballots, we could have it all finished the same night,"
Sharpe said.
"I'm talking about results that would be in by 9:30
p.m. or so, not 1 a.m. At times it's taken four days for
people to know that they've won, and eight days to com
pletely finish counting," he said.
Sharpe also suggested that the number of students
who man the polls be reduced. "This is where the major
problems occur," he said. "We had times when poll
tenders did not arrive to open the polls.
"Usually they work in hourlong shifts, between classes.
When their replacement is late, they go on to class, leav
ing the polls unattended for a few minutes. You've got
an open poll then, right at the rush (to vote) between
classes."
Sharpe suggested that the number of poll tenders be
cut, and that the hours they work be lengthened. "The
number of staffers could be cut by two-thirds," he said.
He proposed that each polling area be placed under
one supervisor, who would be responsible for the poll.
"This supervisor would be in charge of the entire opera
tion of the polling place."
The balloting procedure itself needs changes as well,
Sharpe said. Different election races are now printed on
separate paper ballots. "An enormous amount of time is
. used simply separating the ballots. It took eight people
almost two hours just to divide up the ballots from one
box. And then they had to count them," he said.
One idea would be to consolidate some of the major
races on one ballot, he said. "But; the races would still
have to be separated."
"We've also had a problem with different places run
ning out of ballots," Sharpe said. "There have been
times when a poll tender would run out of ballots and not
tell anyone. People would come back later in the day to
vote, and find that they still couldn't."
Distribution of the ballots was also a problem, he said.
"Morrison dorm was constantly running out of ballots.
It's just a matter of where people vote,"
To cut down on problems with campaign literature,
Sharpe also proposed that each candidate submit his ma
terial to the Elections Board on a set date before the elec
tion. "With campaign material, we had a mess," he said.
"Every 15 minutes we had people calling with complaints
about violations."
'Carolina Quarterly' is given short-fiction award
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. The Carolina Quarterly recently re
ceived an O. Henry Award for short fic
tion, Media Board Chairman Dodd
Haynes announced at a board meeting
this week.
"The O. Henry is the most prestigious
award for short fiction given in this coun
try," Editor Dave March said Wednesday.
"Last year, 1980, was the best year the
Quarterly has Jiad," he said.
The award-winning story, "The Great
est Slump of All Time," included in the
Fall 1980 edition, was written by Univer
sity of Missiouri linguistics instructor
David Carkeet. Lee Smith's story, "Be
tween the Lines," also won an O. Henry,
while "Winter: 1978," by Ann Beatti was
included in the Best American Short
Stories.
Both were in the Winter 1980 edition of
the Quarterly..
' Haynes also announced that the Media
Board was accepting applications for an
at-large seat recently vacated by Haynes.
t -Haynesjsafd interested persons should
submit a resume and a letter of intent to
Box .13 in the Carolina Union. The board
will also accept applications and letters
from anyone interested in becoming busi
ness manager for The Alchemist..
Applications are due by 5 p.m. Sept.
13, and applicants will be interviewed at
the 5 p.m. regular board meeting Sept. 14
in 400 New East.
The Media Board, which oversees the
budgets and finances of six campus publi
cations, was recently appointed a new
faculty advisor, Towsend Ludington, an
associate professor in the English depart
ment. :
"We try to help financially and make
publications aware of what they can and
cannot do," Haynes said. -
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NCNB warns holdelrs of cards
American
Cancer Society
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor
snow, nor hail can keep
The DTH from UNC. Look
for it in the 40 drop-boxes
across campus.
North Carolina National Banlc officials
are warning customers to be aware of
people fraudulently obtaining NCNB 24
card code numbers.
Jim Walters, an NCNB vice president,
said there had been recent instances of
cards being intercepted in the mail and
one instance of a person passing himself
off as a police officer to obtain a code
number by phone.
The cards? used with the proper code
number, can be used to obtain money
from 24-hbur banking machines.
Walters said no person should give his
code number to anyone. Anyone who has
done so should report it to the bank.
He also said that anyone who has or
dered one of the cards and has not re
ceived it through the mail after two weeks
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