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...dumbfounded. This was exactly the problem that had caused the council's own referendum to be invalidated. I left at once, knowing I needed to find witnesses to document what was occurring. I returned home and called the campus press, thinking that they would be the most credible witnesses. There was no answer at the Independent. The person who answered at The Crimson suggested I come down to their office at once...
...first inkling that the council officers had any objection to my going in and out of the office while administering this referendum was when I read the article in yesterday's Crimson (May 11 1994), in which the council secretary is quoted as threatening to file charges with the Administrative Board against The Crimson, and against me, if The Crimson ran a story about ballots being left unsecured in the office. Yesterday, during the day, I was further threatened with criminal charges by several council officers...
With regard to the election itself, my worst fears have come true. Despite overwhelming student support for the reforms proposed in the referendum, the election is on the verge of collapse due to the refusal of the Undergraduate Council officers to take basic precautions against fraud. Dean Jewett, when we met with the Committee on College Life back in April, I requested that the College step in and run the next vote. You replied that it would be a sad day for Harvard when the student government could not be trusted to run a referendum. I submit that today...
...front page photograph in Wednesday's paper showed blank ballots from this week's Undergraduate Council referendum protruding out of an envelope next to the official ballot box in the council office. In fact, the envelope was on top of a stack of similar envelopes next to the ballot box, and the ballots were not protruding as pictured. The photograph was taken after a Crimson reporter moved the blank ballots out of the envelope to illustrate the fact that they were blank. This action constitutes a violation of Crimson policy, and we apologize for the error...
Braunstein, Wu and Davis were in the office toinvestigate charges of impropriety in the storageof ballots from this week's council referendum...