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Show !loss-Albiston 'Make it Happen' ; Second place concludes in dead heat : Hayes, Hansen hang in limbo i v V )' I J - W J rJ By RANDY DRYER -p Chronicle Staff ( ; j jpturing more than 58 percent of the Iiute, Duane Moss and Norm Albiston, 'joning on the Make It Happen ticket, umped toa huge lead in Thursday's ASUU jimary elections. unprecedented sweep of every college j :jve Moss and Albiston more than a 3 to 1 J' Wgjn. The unofficial results released by Injections registrar Rob Odle showed Moss ad Albiston with 1,847 votes, oahotly contested race for second place, mere two votes separated the contenders ,:i the first counting. Subsequent countings sealed an exact tie: 530 votes for the Hayes-Coff ticket and 530 votes for the Jjnsen-Johnson ticket. The elections ammission has unofficially declared the h for second place a dead tie. "he election tabulation was computerized, ibecause of technical difficulties at the Computer Center the tallies for the presidential race were finally hand counted just before midnight. The finalists for the assembly will not be available until later Friday, when a final computer printout is made. ' The Make It Happen party released the following statement when informed of the outcome: "Our people made it happen! We've never seen such personal interest and motivation towards one goal. Many of our people spent late nights calling and organizing their friends in our grassroots campaign. We owe our success to their friendship and initiative and fully appreciate all their efforts. However, we're not in office yet. There's a lot of work left and our people are excited." The three other presidential candidates Brandt Hutchison, Dave Hansen and Todd Hayes, issued a joint statement that regardless of the outcome for second "Daddy, Daddy, our group had 58 percent of the votes and no cavities" might have been the exclamation of Norm Albiston left and Duane Moss as they swept to an easy win. place, they are forming a coalition titled "Again -United We Stand." The newly-formed newly-formed party, the statement continued, will be a coalition of power, not a compromise com-promise of issues. Reduction in the ASUU appropriation to athletics with those funds going to build a 5,000-seat auditorium, will be a major issue in their new platform. The coalition is being formed to speak out on the issues that before have appeared mute and soft. A clear and definite alternative will be offered to the voter, the statement continued. Primary balloting, held Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday of this week, was mild with a slightly lower turnout than previous years. Last year's primary turnout totaled approximately 3,600 votes, 450 more than this year's figure of 3,155. The turnout this year represents about 16 percent of the studentbody eligible to vote. A 20 percent voter turnout will be necessary next week in the final election for it to be valid. Voting appeared to be the heaviest in the College of Business, Social and Behavioral Science and Humanities. The lowest turnout came in the College of Social Work, with 18 votes. |