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ANTH161 World Cultures
ANTH 170 Intro to Human Origins
6E0G 206 Geography of Oregon
HIST 382 Latin America
INTL 350 International Leadership
PSY 330 Thinking
PSY 375 Development
SOC 301 American Society
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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.
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