ELECTIONS
Voters say Trojan OK,
nix recycling measure
By Christopher Blair
Emerald Managing Edilor
Oregon voters held economic:
interests over the environment
Tuesday, as measures to shut
down the state's only nuclear
plant and phase out non-recy
clable packaging were soundly
defeated.
With three-fourths of pre
cincts reporting. Ballot Meas
ure 4, which would have shut
down Trojan nuclear plant, was
going down to defeat by a score
of BO percent to 40 percent.
Measure 4 would have c losed
the plant until it was brought
up to stronger earthquake-resis
tant standards and a federal site
was found for the nation's nu
clear waste. The measure also
would have closed the plant
until its cost-efficiency record
improved.
Lloyd Marbet trom the Don t
Waste Oregon Committee, one
of measure's leading backers,
said the election was a matter
of dollars. The initiative's op
ponents. among them plant
owner Portland General Elec
tric Co., spent $2 I million on
the campaign.
Marbet said his group had a
budget of $52,000. most of
which was from donations of
$100 or less.
“I wish I'd had $1 million in
the last week of the campaign,
and $:t.5 million to spend
throughout the campaign. " he
said. "We can't compete. No
doubt about it: Money made
the difference.
“1 don't know what it will
take for people to wake up and
realize that democracy is lasing
manipulated by money." he
said.
Marbet said it will take an ac -
cident to persuade voters aland
Troian's aliened problems
"Waste problems are not re
solved," he said "Safety prob
lems are not resolved The
earthquake problem certainly is
not resolved I hope tragedy
isn't what's needed to change
people's minds."
Measure fi would have re
quired strict recycling stan
dards for packaging sold in the
state, with hardship waivers for
business and individuals who
could not comply for financial
reasons. It was losing 58 per
cent to 4^ percent late Tuesday
night
John Albrecht of the Sierra
Club's Oregon Chapter also
cited a disparity in campaign
funds as the main reason Meas
ure t> was defeated
Advertising campaigns and
efforts by corporations such as
the American Paper Institute.
Philip Morris and Union Car
bide cost a total of $1! \ million
The opposition, mostly from
environmental groups such as
the Oregon State Public Interest
Group and the Sierra (dub. to
gether spent $295,000.
"The money the opposition
put in was rather significant."
Albrecht said. "They had full
page ads in The Register-Guard
and so forth, the kinds of ads
we couldn’t afford to put to
gether."
Albrecht praised campaign
workers with the Oregon State
Public Interest Group, but he
said their work and the work of
others for the measure was in
vain.
"To get votes in a modern
day election takes money." he
said.
Opponents to the measures
could not be reached for com
ment
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Students turned away at polls
By Denise Clifton
EmetaK) Contributor
At least 75 University stu
dents were turned away from
voting Tuesday at the EMU
precinct because they had not
re-registered to vote after
moving for the summer, said
the election board chairwom
an of the on-campus precinct
These students couldn't
vote even though their current
addresses are the same as the
addresses they held and vot
ed with during the last
school year.
"We are told that every
time you physically move,
you must re-register, even if
you're moving back into the
same address," said Charlotte
Thompson. KMU precinct
election board chairwoman
"If your name is not in the of
ficial registration book, we
cannot allow you to vote. "
Annette Pomeroy, chief
deputy county (lerk for l .a no
County, •••lid it is common for
the state's elections divisions
to purge registration ris ords
"After every election, the
law provides that we can clear
the records of people who the
Post Office says have
moved." she said, explaining
that it is wasteful to mail elec
tion materials to people who
don't live in a voting district
Re-registration notices are
sent to people who leave for
warding addresses. Pomeroy
said.
Itut many students claim
they never received letters in
forming them to re-register
"I voted here last year and I
came back to the same ad
dress," said University soph
omore Richard Tunnell. who
wasn't allowed to vote "I
rhulu ht N*4« Hwlon
Michelle Olsen, a University senior in biology, casts a bal
lot for the first time Tuesday night.
know nobody ever sent mo u
notice to re-register."
Pomeroy had no answer tor
students' claims that they
weren't notified.
The ASUO also received si
milar complaints from stu
dents Tuesday, co-President
Sheila Stickel said
"We're pretty upset about it
because we've been pushing
for students to vote." Stickel
siiitl, noting that election out
comes can he decided by the
number of votes that were ex
cluded.
"They say it's not the first
time, hut it is," Stickel said
"All we can suggest at this
point is for people to com
plain to the elections divi
sion."
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