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<h1><font size="2">2004 Associated Students Elections</font></h1>
<h1><font size="5">Who won? Who knows?</font></h1>
<p class="subhead">Results delayed; election commissioner blames faulty
equipment</p> <p class="byline">By Laban Pelz</p>
<p class="storyText">A faulty ballot-tallying machine suspended AS election
results, election commissioner Raylon Madan said Thursday night. </p>
<p class="storyText"> “
We had significant discrepancies between the hand count and that machine,” Madan
said, pointing to the scantron-counting device sitting on a table in
the USU. </p>
<p class="storyText"> There is currently no way of knowing any winners. </p>
<p class="storyText"> Candidates for AS president, vice president of
finance and senatorial positions listened to the commission’s 11:30 p.m. announcement
after hours of waiting. The commission’s counting process, aided
by the Fresno League of Women Voters, began at 7 p.m. </p>
<p class="storyText"> “
They made a good decision, because they don’t want to give any
results that are inaccurate,” presidential candidate Michael
Karbassi said. </p>
<p class="storyText"> A hand count showed 1,826 ballots were cast by
students in the Wednesday and Thursday elections, but when the same
group of ballots was put
through the machine, a “much higher number” was indicated,
according to Madan.</p> <p class="storyText"> The commission plans to appropriate a new counting machine, Madan said
.</p>
<p class="storyText"> “
We need a good machine,” he said.</p>
<p class="storyText"> The device used Thursday came from campus testing
services and was the only such machine in use. The commission said
it did not know what
was wrong with the tallying device. </p>
<p class="storyText"> The commission first determined 1,826 ballots were
cast when it subtracted the number of unused ballots from the number
of the original supply,
2,050. Fresno State students cast 1,170 votes the previous year. </p>
<p class="storyText"> “
I’m just happy that many people turned out,” Karbassi said
of this year’s turnout.</p>
<p class="storyText"> The earliest election results will be known Monday,
Madan said.</p> <p> </p>
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