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Show Posters Sprout As Primaries Wear Bv DARRKI.I, l.in t .'. . Laraine Isom, the students will be divided alphabetically among the 12 new voting machines. These voting vot-ing machines were donated by Automatic Au-tomatic Voting Machine Co. and will be the first time the University Univer-sity has used them. Primary voting will end Thursday Thurs-day evening at 8 p.m. Polls will be open Wednesday until 8 p.m. Voters can cast ballots for three people for each board and one for ASUU and senior class president. "Voters don't have to vote for three, but three is the maximum," By DARRELL LEO I Chronicle Staff Writer With primary elections coming up Wednesday and Thursday, candidates can-didates for ASUU-posts have hit the University campus with the full brunt of election campaigns. Starting Sunday afternoon, candidates can-didates and campaign workers decorated dec-orated the campus with signs, proclaiming pro-claiming each candidates' qualifications. qualifi-cations. Trying to incorporate novelty nov-elty in the campaign, candidates' posters ranged from swings to hanging gallows, from teepees to colored blocks. Candidates Speak Out During the past week, candidates have spoken to various groups, including in-cluding fraternities, sororities, LDSSA, general public hearings, and residence halls. They have presented pre-sented their platforms and answered an-swered questions from the audi-f audi-f ences at these discussions. Primary election voting booths are scheduled to open Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. to voters. To vote, people peo-ple must be registered University students who have paid for spring quarter fees. They must also have their activity cards. Judges at the booths will check for these voting requirements and have the voter sign in to eliminate duplication of voting. According to Elections Chairman Miss Isom said. Write-ins Allowed A write-in is possible for primary elections. "Some boards have less than six candidates," said Miss Isom. "To be placed on the ballot, a write-in candidate needs only to be ranked in the top six of the candidates." From the primaries, candidates will be narrowed down to six finalists fi-nalists for each board and two candidates for studentbody and senior class presidencies. Also, starting today, Chronicle will run ads for candidates. Follow Budget Miss Isom reminds candidates' that they must stay within their budgets. Primary elections candidates candi-dates for board positions are allowed al-lowed $20 and candidates seeking presidencies can spend $30. If can-, didates become finalists, they are allowed to spend an additional $20 or $30. Final elections will be held April 24-25, along with Choice '68, the poll sponsored by Time Magazine, which will poll the college choice for U.S. president. Today at noon, in the Union Ballroom, Ball-room, candidates for ASUU President Presi-dent will present their platforms. Leon Dever, Steve Gunn and Randy Ran-dy Mackey are the candidates. Refreshments Re-freshments will be served. H i vy? V ' ix 7 r: ' ' 2 -. ! Showuig amazing originality with poster board ASUU candidates construct advertising around cam- pus. Candidates began posting at noon Sunday in warm spring weather. |