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Notre Dame Waits for 2004 Ohio Decision --------------- ---~------------------------------------------- ---~------ --------- THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOLUME 39: ISSUE 46 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 2004 NDSMCOBSERVER.COM Notre Dame waits for 2004 Ohio decision MEG HAN MARTIN and ERIC SALES!The Observer Notre Dame students wait for the results of the Ohio election to be determined by the news networks early this morning. Officials hesistated to declare an official result in Florida because of the closeness of the race. Candidates, networks learned recount lessons from 2000 election debacle "I don't think Ohio is defi­ sanship consuming the country the heavy campaigning from Campbell said was unlikely to By CLAIRE HEININGER nitely in the bag yet," Tracy throughout the campaign Bush and Democratic chal­ occur this year. News Editor said after Fox News called the would pose a challenge for lenger John Kerry. "You will only see a conces­ race for the president. "I think whoever is the eventual win­ Iafigliola, who mailed his sion if they're truly con­ Mirroring their home state, it's going to be too close." ner. absentee ballot overnight so it vinced," he said. Notre Dame students from But the possibility of a "Both parties need to show would arrive in time, said he And while an Ohio recount Ohio lingered longest in front statewide recount would not some leadership to calm it understood the media's hesita­ seems likely, Campbell added, of election coverage Tuesday be as daunting as the Florida down a little bit," Tracy said. tion in declaring a winner.- the weeks and months of legal night as the race hinged on the crisis in 2000, Tracy said. Taking a lighter tone as he " A lot depends on how the challenges predicted by final swing state's 20 electoral "I don't think a recount has watched the returns, Ryan networks cover it," he said. national pundits· might not votes. the same stigma," he said. lafigliola, a sophomore from a "They want to be real careful materialize. Despite some television net­ "People are expecting it," Cleveland suburb, basked in after 2000." "A lot of people are operat­ works' early declarations of Johnson added. "Whichever his state's sudden spotlight. The candidates must also ing under the assumption that victory for President Bush party loses is going to try to "We're hoping [Bush] takes it avoid repeating past mistakes, 2004 will be a repeat of 2000, there, Katie Johnson, a sopho­ find states where people on Ohio so we can take credit," political science professor but it's not certain in my mind more from Toledo, and Chris weren't counted ... and drag he said, adding that a battle David Campbell said. After AI that it'll play that way," he Tracy, a sophomore from this out." there was inevitable, due to Gore conceded on election said. "A lot of bizarre things Cincinnati, planned to stay up While both Tracy and the precedent that no night four years ago, he had to happen at once." until the state's entire tally Johnson voted for Bush, they Republican has won the presi­ entered the Florida recount at was in. acknowledged that the parti- dency without taking Ohio and a disadvantage - a scenario see REACTION/page 6 ND students, South Bend residents flood polls at JACC Election workers ease process for Tuesday voters Willis said this election King and her fellow election By TERESA FRALISH sparked her interest in poli­ volunteers - two clerks and Associate News Editor tics, and she felt compelled to two vote judges - arrived at become involved. the JACC early to set up voting Election volunteer Abby "I wanted to volunteer for materials and snacks for the Willas, a 17-year-old my party, and they said they day. All Indiana polls were Mishawaka High School sen­ needed someone to work at open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. ior, spent her Tuesday at the Notre Dame," she said. Tuesday. Joyce Center polling place But regardless of the voter's "I've been here since 5 explaining the intricacies and affiliation, Willas and other a.m.," King said. procedures of Indiana ballot­ precinct officials made sure In the morning. poll workers ing to voters - which includ­ that each person could fill out said they saw mostly older ed University President Father his or her ballot quickly and voters, with more students Edward Malloy. smoothly. showing up to vote in the "I didn't know he was the "We really do protect the afternoon. president of Notre Dame until privacy of the voter," precinct "We had the priests and he was at the poll," Willas sheriff Donna King said. brothers from Holy Cross and said. Throughout the day, poll a few nuns," King said. After Malloy walked back to workers saw a steady stream This election yp,ar, Indiana the booth, the other election of Notre Dame students and replaced its old lflver-style vot­ workers told her who she had South Bend residents come to ing maehinfls with electronic just helped vote. east their votes in the J oyee scanners, and poll workers "Our inspector Norma Center. said they had few problems [Patton] asked to shake his "It's just awesome to see. with the new ballots. ERIC SALES!The Observer hand. and I just thought he They come in with walkers "For me it seems simple," Poll volunteers help voters cast their ballots Tuesday at the was being nice," she said. and canes," King f!_aid of elder­ Joyce Center from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Celebrity run-ins aside, ly voters. see POLLING/page 8 .------------------------------------------~ --~~- --- -- page 2 The Observer+ PAGE 2 Wednesday, November 3, 2004 INSIDE COLUMN QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do YOU THINK ELECTION DAY SHOULD BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY? Surviving w-inter I know that many of you are ovnrwhelmed by the elections. This is why I decided to give you a little break from the elections by writing Sheila Mamandur Michael Rossmann Shannon Reabe Ryan lafigliola Christina Dehan Katie Napleton about something that has nothing freshman sophomore freshman sophomore senior freshman to do with them. Walsh Dillon McGlinn Zahm Badin PE The result of the elections will not Pamela Lock really affect us "No, because it's "Yes. If there is "Yes, I believe it "Yes, but we "''m sure that "Yes, it until January. just choosing a holiday for should be. More don't even get even if it were a encourages a but one thing that will affect photographer the president." Columbus [Day], people could get Labor Day off national better voter us in the imme- then there to the poles." here." holiday, we turnout." diate future is should be one wouldn't get out the "wonderful" South Bend win­ ter. I am originally from Lima, for the of class." Peru. As many of you might not election." know, Lima is located in the West coast of Peru, in the middle of a desert. Yes, that means no snow. As I was getting ready to come here last year, I had to be opti­ mistic about South Bend winter and think that it was not going to IN BRIEF bn that bad, because that would make the thought of the death of my summer for tlw nnxt four years The locture "Bicultural not too terribly depressing. But I Competence: Understanding was completely wrong. How Latino Students Navigate When it started to get cold, I Cultural Contexts" will takn became more and more excil!~d place today at noon by Lisa about snow. I had seen snow Edwards from the department of before, but never on a daily basis. Psychology in 20H McKenna llall. Thoughts about running out in the snow. having snowball fights and Tho lecture "St. Augustine, making snow angpls made me HatTy Potter and the morn exdtnd for the snow season Confrontation with Evil," will bP to start. l.ikn a littln kid, I would givon today at 4 p.m. in the wake up nvcry morning and look McKenna flail Auditorium. outside to sec if it had started snowing ynt. lronkally, the day it The Notn~ Dame women's startnd snowing was the day wlwn basketball team will have an I rnaliwd I wanted it to stop. My exhibition gamo taking on ears, nose, fePt. hands and dweks Premier Sports on tonight at 7 were all literally freezing and p.m. at the Joyce Center. numb. The only thing that kept me a little warm was thP thought of Author of "Ameriean the beach and sun back horne and Compass" Bill Meissner will how much I wantnd to lw tlwre. read tonight at 7::~0 p.m. in the As winter WIHlt by. the tmnpera­ Hospitality Hoom at Beckers, South Dining llall. turn kept on dropping beyond my ERIC SALES/The Observer belief. I used morn and morn lay­ Voters cast their ballots Tuesday at the Joyce Center polling place. At many ers, but it reached a point when I "A Midsummer Night's precincts across the nation, citizens turned out early and waited in lines for hours Dream" will be performed by rnalized that they w1~rn not helping to register their choices. much. At that point. I was forc1~d Actors from the London Stago to settle to thP idea that what had tonight at 7:30 p.m. in tho been the summer months for me Leighton Concert Hall in tho were now going to be all about DeBartolo Center for the snow, wind. gloomy days and a lot OFFBEAT Perfiwming ArL'i. There will be a of slipping and landing nat on the second performance on ground.
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