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Advertise in the Emerald call 346-4343 or place your ad online at www.dailyemerald.com Rejected signatures may impact ballot A coalition says petitions were excluded because of minor inconsistencies WILLIAM MCCALL ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PORTLAND — A coalition of chief petitioners who have proposed sever al statewide ballot measures told a federal judge Wednesday that Secre tary of State Bill Bradbury rejected valid signatures that could have made a difference in whether the measures made the ballot. But the state elections chief, John Lindback, dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous" following testimony in a lawsuit challenging state policy on judging the validity of signatures by petition circulators. The issue is whether the circulators properly signed the petitions after they gathered voter signatures — a judgment call by Bradbury and elec tions officials authorized to make that decision, state attorneys argue. "We did what we thought was rea sonable," Lindback said. Paul Farago, chief petitioner for a measure to restore legislative term lim its, claimed that Lindback overstepped his authority and excluded entire peti tions because of minor differences in the signatures of petition circulators. When Lindback attempted to ex plain to reporters why some of the pe titions were rejected, Farago darted between reporters and said "Liar!" Lindback responded that only 5,649 of nearly 118,000 signatures were initially rejected on Farago's peti tion, but that small group had "seri ous problems" or other flaws that clearly violated state policy. During the hearing, Dan Meek, an attorney representing the coalition, argued the state should have included those 5,649 signatures when it con ducted a routine statistical sampling to determine how many of the total 118,000 signatures were valid. The state Elections Division can not check every petition signature submitted for a ballot measure, so it relies on sampling to determine the percentage of valid signatures after an initial sorting that rejects petitions with obvious flaws. The petition submitted by Farago failed to qualify for the ballot be cause the sampling determined only about 82 percent of the signatures were valid, leaving the petition 8,640 signatures short. Meek argued that including the dis puted 5,649 signatures in the statisti cal sample could change the percent age of total estimated valid signatures. Bradford Crain, a Portland State University professor of statistics, testi fied for the coalition that the percent age depended on a count of the total number of signatures. But David Leith, an assistant state at torney general, told U.S. District Judge Owen Panner that even if all 5,649 dis puted signatures were considered valid, the petition would still fail to qualify so any challenge is "fruitless." William McCall is a writer for the Associated Press. NEWS BRIEF EMU to offer DVD rental machine The campus' first DVD rental ma chine has been installed on the ground floor of the EMU. The EMU board approved a one year contract for the 600-title machine in spring 2004, EMU Director Dusty Miller said. The machine in the only DVD rental option available on cam pus, except for a DVD borrowing serv ice University Housing offers to those in the residence halls, he said. "They do have a supply of DVDs that they give to residents free of charge," Miller said. "Apparently it's not as extensive or possibly as updat ed as we believe this machine will be." Miller said the board approved the machine as more of a service to stu dents and less of a money maker, although the EMU will receive proceeds from rentals. The machine rents DVDs for three days for three dollars. It currently ac cepts only credit cards, but may accept debit cards in the future, Miller said. — Jared Pabeti CLARIFICATION The Emerald reported in the story “Higher Ed board proposes 200507 budget" (July 20) that the Oregon State Board of Higher Education proposed a tuition increase of 3.6 percent for the bi ennium. The Board actually recommended in its “Essential Budget Level" proposal a 5 percent tuition increase in each year of the upcoming biennium. The Board also requested a policy pack age of $20 million, to reduce the tuition increase to the 3.6 percent originally reported. 019446 HAIR DESIGN cut hair coloring styling Specialist: Kim Braun magic straight perm digital setting perm Specialist in Asian hair: Sanghee Park tanning• nails TANNING SPECIAL $5 off 5 Tan package (regular $25) 119 Commons Dr., Eugene, 97401 (541) 342-7661 16^610 1816 UILLfltlETTE 541.687.1511 ANDROID CLOTHING UINTRGE.NEU.HILITRRV LOCAL DESIGN SOON UOnVN.NEN BUV.SELL.TRROE DRILV 12-7
