WARNER, JOHNSON, DUKES TOP SCHOOL VOTE (...

WARNER, JOHNSON, DUKES TOP SCHOOL VOTE (continued) She did not appear on the official ballot since she was ruled ineligible by school officials because she is under the legal voting age. Miss Yaco, who is 15, was endorsed by the HRP which campaigned for her election, along with Holt and Mrs. Wilson. The total HRP vote was 8,008, which was not sufficient to place its candidates beyond last places in the race. However, an HRP spokesmen said, "compared to the City Council election April 3, support for HRP has broadened to other-thanstudent members of the community. "With about two-thirds of the University students absent from Ann Arbor, with almost no absentee ballots, and with about one-third of the workers; HRP still came in first in the same six precincts as the April election and increased its proportion of voters in several non-student segments," the HRP release said. It had been speculated that this year's I election would have HRP impact froin I its campaign for absentee b a 1 1 o t s . I However, school officials reported this I morning that total absentee ballots received numbered 816. This is down from last year's 840 absentee votes and HRP candidates Wilson, Holt and Yaco received 281, 278, and 156 respectively. It was estimated that each candidate received at least 200 absentee votes. Liberal candidates Bishop, Brussolo and Johnson, campaigning under the CARES endorsement, totaled a bloc vote of 19,287. Campaigning w i t h conservative endorsement, Warner, Dukes and Wickliffe tallied a 20,740 bloc vote in Monday's election. Last year there was a total of 17,646 votes cast in the school election, which also included two money issues along with the board candidates. Despite overcast skies, occasional rain and no millage issue on the ballot, 18,875 voters turned out. The interest in Monday's election has been attributed by school officials to several factors. They said the increased voter registra tion of 18-year-old voters along with the campaign efforts of the HRP was a definite factor. School spokesmen also included the high degree of community interest in the schools which developed from the recent controversy over two administrative resignations. Teacher interest was also cited as giving Ímpetus to what would have ordinarily been a very light voter turnout. Ann Arbor teachers experienced their first walkout last fall and have been concerned over the board they will be negotiating with in the future. Warner, Dukes and Johnson will be i sworn in for their new terms at the board's first meeting in July.