Instead of sending all the candidates the usual confirmation e-mail, Hulse began calling the students to make sure they wanted to be registered. When the first four of these persons denied that they wanted to run for the council, Hulse decided that the other "A" registrations were fraudulent as well.

Included among these entries was a registration from Peter "D'Man" Ciganik'01, a resident of Weld.

Ciganik has previously twice attempted to register as a council candidate, under the pseudonym "D'Man." Because he did not provide a phone number, he was not allowed to register.

While investigating the "A" registrants, Hulse declined to register Ciganik, thinking his entry was fraudulent, Hulse said. And neither Ciganik nor any of the other candidates who were denied registration contacted Hulse when their names did not appear on the ballot.

Ciganik couldn't be reached last night.

"There's a relative lack of security in this submitting by Web," Hulse said. "I just trusted people to be serious about it."

Students have voted for council representatives over the Internet since last year, although this election was the first in which candidates could register on line.

All of the fraudulent registrations were made from Science Center computers and could not be traced to an individual user, Hulse said.

Weld 11

The six first-year residents of Weld Room 11 felt they could work well together from their first day at Harvard. Edward S.Baker, Scott G.Farber, Jacob E. Fleming, Arthur E.Koski-Karell, Matthew S. O'Hare and Joshua J. Wilske even converted one room of their suite into a casino in lieu of living in singles.

All six men were interested in running for the council, but were worried they would lose since they share the same friends.

"We thought that if we all ran we'd split the votes," Fleming said. "We know a lot of people, this room is a center of activity.

Rather than competing against each other for the six Southeast Yard council slots, the Weld residents asked Council Vice President Mark A. Price '98 if they could run as a single entity and split the responsibilities of one representative.

"The student body votes for the people they want to be there representatives," Fleming said. "If they thought that they would be better represented by a group than an individual, then let them vote for us."

Since he could find nothing in the council by-laws that explicitly prohibited a group to run for one Council seat, Price asked the six to submit a paper to him explaining their request, which he said he would then bring to the election commission, Price said last night.