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Thursday November 8, 1984 Missoula, Montana Kaimin Vol. 87, No. 26 Final tallies stalled again By Michael Kustudia at the precincts and phoned into the court­ Kaimin Reporter house, Hart said. Final Missoula County election returns are Counting paper ballots is a slow process, not yet available because of a breakdown Hart said, adding it took nearly 19 hours to in the votoamatic ballot tabulator early count 3,000 absentee paper ballots. Wednesday morning, according to Fern In contrast, she said, the ballot tabulator Hart, county elections administrator. can count 300 votes a minute. “It's a very embarrassing situation to be As of 7 p.m. last night, all the votes had in," Hart said, because most other Montana been tallied in only the tight county com­ counties have already filed election returns. missioner race. Hart said that all votes from Missoula Incumbent Barbara Evans, who was County's 75 precincts have been counted, thought to have lost the race, came out 34 but the machine broke down before they votes ahead over Democratic challenger were added together for cumulative totals. Larry McLatchy after the absentee ballots Cumulative totals are being figured with were counted. calculators, she said. In other university area battles, UM For­ Hart said she expected some totals to be estry Professor Bob Ream retained his seat available last night, but did not know when in the Montana House of Representatives the remainder wilt be in. by beating Republican Mike Jessup 1,819 votes to 1^26. Democrat Mike Kadas, who Missoula County Commissioner Ann Mary ran unopposed, retained the District 55 Dussualt said that, even with a properly seat. working vote tabulator, the vote counting Democrat Harry Fritz, a UM history pro­ process is still too slow. Other areas in the fessor, easily outdistanced Republican Betty state had their returns in before Missoula Haddon and Libertarian Susan Roberts. County's tabulator broke down, she added. Fritz had 2,178 votes, Haddon 1,017 and The Missoula County Commission plans Roberts 133. on looking at alternatives to the votoamatic Former UM professor Earl Lory garnered system, she said. One option might be opti­ 1,933 votes to top Dick Barrett, an eco­ cal scanners that pick up number two pen­ nomics professor who had 1,700. Libertar­ cil markings, similar to the method used for ian Joseph Coburn had 100 votes in that school tests. District 59 race. Dussualt estimated it could cost $200,000 Democratic incumbent Senator Fred Van to $300,000 to convert to a new system. Valkenberg kept his district 30 position as The vote tallying was also slowed by late he beat Republican Arlene Breum 4,005 returns on paper ballots, which are counted votes to 3,439. Freeze not politcal to Willens Staff photo by Doug Loneman. SAFE? NO, SCOTT KALL isn’t umpiring; he’s one of the guest conductors at last night’s performance of Willens said Democratic War II, Willens saw the Japa­ Julie T. Sullivan the University of Montana Marching Band. Kail is a Kaimin Reporter candidate Walter Mondale nese cities of Hiroshima and graduate assistant for the music department. Even though Harold Willens would have chosen more Nagasaki shortly after the is a leader of the nuclear qualified people to deal with atomic bombings there. The freeze movement, he said he the arms race issue. However, impression never left him, and was not disappointed by the Willens said, Mondale he has been involved in the Reagan’s coattails short re-election of President Rea­ wouldn’t have been as effec­ nuclear freeze movement for gan because the nuclear free­ tive as Reagan because he about 20 years. (AP) — Montana voters ence and pull Cozzens into office. ze movement is not political. does not have the support of Willens said it is a myth have once again proven "Wanting to end the arms U.S. conservatives as Reagan that military spending is good themselves ardent ticket-split­ In the 2nd Congressional race is about as political as does. for business. He said the ters, giving major Democratic District, incumbent Republican wanting to end cancer,” Wil­ Willens also said Reagan arms race is bad because for and Republican candidates Ron Marlenee trounced Dem­ lens said at the University of probably won’t break his cam­ every billion dollars spent on alike huge margins of victory ocratic challenger Chet Blay­ Montana Wednesday night. paign promises to negotiate the nuclear build-up, 20,000 and making a shambles of lock to win a fifth term in the Willens, a retired head of.tex­ an arms control agreement jobs could be created. The the presidential coattails theo­ U.S. House. tile and real estate busineses, with the Soviets. He said Rea­ arms race also puts billions of ry- Marlenee had been expect­ said the freeze movement is gan is a pragmatic politican dollars into something that President Reagan collected ed to win but Blaylock's loss non-partisan. who wouldn’t like to see his people "pray we won’t use," about 60 percent of the Mon­ by about 32 percentage “We’ve been in a nuclear grandchildren “barbequed.” and thereby adds to the mas­ tana vote but his popularity points had to be a major dis­ arms race for 40 years and Willens gave his lecture, sive federal deficits. He added did not rub off on fellow Re­ appointment for the Demo­ Ronald Reagan hasn’t been Being Dead is Bad for Busi­ that the arms race is also bad publican Chuck Cozzens, who cratic Party. president for 40 years,” Wil­ ness, to about 50 people. His for businessmen because, “it'll was soundly defeated in Democrat Pat Williams, run­ lens said in a press confer­ speech was sponsored by end everything you work for." Tuesday’s election by Demo­ ning for his fourth term in the ence earlier Wednesday. ASUM Programming, UM cratic Sen. Max Baucus. U.S. House from the 1st Con­ However, he said Reagan is School of Business and the Willens said he founded a In the final days of the cam­ gressional District, whipped at fault for “picking funny office of UM President Neil 2,000 member nuclear freeze paign, Cozzens' staff acknow­ Republican Gary Carlson by people who said less than Bucklew. organization, Business Execu- ledged that he was behind about 34 percentage points, funny things about the nuclear As a U.S. Marine intelli­ but claimed Reagan's popu­ arms race." larity could make the differ­ gence officer during World See ‘Business,’ page 11. See ‘Elections,’ page 11. -UP inion An embarrassing situation By 6 p.m. MST on Tuesday night, Ronald Reagan knew that he had scored a landslide victory over Wal­ ter Mondale in the 1984 Presidential election. However, Reagan and Mondale should thank their lucky stars that the outcome of their race did not depend on the results being tabulated in Missoula County. As of 7 p.m. yesterday, election officials were still trying to tabulate election results for Missoula County. A breakdown in the county's votoamatic counting system and the slow speed at which paper ballots can be tabulated were given as reasons for the delay in announcing the final results. Editorial___________________ County Election Administrator Fern Hart called the delay a “very embarrassing situation.” And rightly so. Anyone involved with the vote counting process should be embarrassed. This type of mess is something that you might ex­ pect from a past ASUM election, but not from a fed­ eral election that millions of dollars have been spent preparing for. Voters have the right to know who won the races in The Right Hook---------------by Richard Venola their electoral districts within a reasonable amount of time. And candidates for office should not be left In the dark for several days, not knowing whether they won or lost their respective races. Head aches Other voting precincts throughout the state did not In the wake of the elections, everyone's Is probably getting pay-offs from a manu­ experience these problems. Maybe, a little more fore­ probably burnt out from hearing about seri­ facturer of shoe-cleaning chemicals. sight and pre-election planning would prevent these ous Issues, so I propose an examination of Toilet seats are not designed by humans. last-minute foul ups from causing Missoula County to something terribly annoying and close to all Years ago, in an attempt to create safe be one of the last counties in the state to release its of us: poorly designed restrooms. jobs for the criminally deranged, the gov­ election results. I mean, even normafr-people spend about ernment decided that*only people convicted an hour a day in the damned things and of at least three mutilation murders would The free ride some sorority girls have been known to re­ be allowed to design toilet seats.