Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, July 27, 1995, Page 4, Image 4

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Event: Initiative may reshape council
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to the second choice, or third,
etc And voters < an rank several
candidates equally, dividing
their vote as needed among one
or mom candidates
Although the system sounds
complic ated. Hcmthoc kle said
that a computer c an work it out
in a matter of sec onds
Tln> intiahve would also
increase the City Council to a
tO-Rtembur body, up from night,
and expand the power of the
c ouoc il bv limiting the c it> man
ager's authority It would also
allow council members to In*
paid for their work on the coun
<41.
The election would iw* con
ducted through mail-in ballot,
hut it would also be possible to
go to a poll. Hornbuc kle said.
One of the benefits of this new
process is (hat it would elimi
nate I ho net'll for a primary eie,
lion Ikh^ui* tho candidates
w ould not need to he narrowed
down. Therefore it would he
more cos! effot live for the < itv.
Horn buckle said
The computer program, (level
oped by J»f«l Software, counts
the votes and dons the distribut
ing electronically
"It's almost impossible to
make a mistake in prefurem e
voting." Horn but kle said
Preference voting has been
around for a long time. Horn
buckle said, adding that the
founder of the la-ague of Women
Voters has been a big proponent
A similar type of voting system
is used in < ambridge. M iss .
although tt is done by hand and
not electronically There it is
well-rot etved and draws spot ta
tors to the counting on election
night. Hombuckie said.
Hombuckle said he i rented
the initiative b«*< ause he
believes voter alienation is a
problem in this city.
Instead of having a race where
an incumbent has the advantage
be* a use of name recognition, a
voter will !»• better able to make
an informed decision about a
candidate's ideas, Hombuckle
said.
"It i.auM's issue-oriented cam
paigns where voters have the
ability to penalize candidates."
fie said
Opponents of the initiative,
including itigene Mayor Ruth
Has* OR), say the initiative has a
poor chatu e of passing lea ause
it includes too many issues. Also,
she has said, v oters do not really
want to pay the city council.
Project: It will excite
kids, coordinator says
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lion on 4‘i geographic al lot at ions .it ross iln> state The
Mi.*-, represented on KxplOregon were t'.host'll based on
the amount of information, photographs, and research
t ollt't it'd nlxiut Ihem The slate is divided into nine phys
iographic regions with physical charm (eristics unique to
each of those regions
kids do get excited about multi-media." said James
Meat ham, geographical < coordinator lor the projec t "They
i an interact with images on tin- s. reen and explore arms
the) ve bwin to or areas they will l»> going to
Joe Searl, t o director of the projec t, said the CD-ROM
was designed to serve as a supplement in the classroom,
not to eliminate geography textbooks altogether
"Sun kids are Immg exposed to multi-media, we need
more of it m education." Searl said Anybody that elimi
nates or relies on textbooks entirely is missing the point,"
KxplOregon will be presented at the International
Cartographers Association Conference* in Barcelona,
Spain, during the first week of September Lay said every
sc hoot in Oregon, kindergarten through high s< hcKjl, will
he receiving a free CD-ROM courtesy of the Sony disc
manufacturing plant, in Springfield
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Change: OSSHE
hopes to save
$1.1 million
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The bill will allow more of higher
education's interests to I*' served dur
ing the bargaining process. Anderson
said. Iwcanse only higher education
officials are involved.
After the bill passed. OSS} I1-. signed
a letter of agreement with OPKU, out
lining how new contracts would he
negt mated
If the union does not reacfi a con
tract agreement for 1995-97 with the
state by mid-August OSSHE will use
the 1993-95 contrai t as a starting point
for contract negotiations.
Meanwhile OSSi IE is try mg to work
out all the kinks hi the system. Ander
son said Each campus lias I wen work
ing with groups to design policies to
make the transition easier, he said
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