Council Acts to Quash NSA Balloting Errors

"There will be no botches in this election," Samuel A. Robbins '46, chairman of a committee planning the National Student Association re-vote, said yesterday.

Following this prediction, Robbins three-man Council group has ordered some dozen precautionary measures for Monday's election, so that the administrative errors which made the last balloting void will not crop up again.

First of all, Robbins says he will have all ballots and biographies printed 72 hours in advance instead of three hours late, as was the ease on Thursday, April 15. Candidates have drawn lots for their positions on the ballots, which will be stapled to biographies.

While these documents are resting under lock and key, posters and sample ballots will appear on all College bulletin boards informing the electorate.

Rovers Ready

When the election comes around, a Robbins-trained and House committee-selected staff will work at the polls, while members of the special committee and the Council travel through the Houses with their eyes peeled for ballot-box stuffers, illegal campaigners, and sundry other Monday miscreants.

Election workers will check off each voter as he turns in his ballot, and will also invade dining rooms to catch the votes of late diners. And there is a strong rumor around Council headquarters that a brand-new set of wooden ballot boxes may be ready for the occasion.

Finally, Robbins has invited each candidate to send an observer to the Council office to help tabulate ballots.

The elections committee, which also includes John K. Lally '49 and Joseph Rancatore '50, has warned that it will prosecute any candidate who violates the campaigning rules.