Vote early and, perhaps, often. It's possible that some voters were able to do just than in this week's Undergraduate Council term bill referendum, several students said yesterday.

No one interviewed was able to identify a student who had voted more than once, but the council administered referendum had few safeguards to prevent multiple balloting.

This failure to administer the vote with even the most basic of safeguards puts the validity of the referendum in doubt. After allegations of other election improprieties earlier this week, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said the College might move to invalidate the referendum.

Some charged this week that the council had violated its own rules by having members table for the referendum in their own houses. One member was even accused of harassment after a run-in with a voter in his own house.

Even the security of the voting has been calledinto question. Council members acknowledged thisweek that ballots cast Wednesday were leftunsecured in the council's Canaday office.

The allegations "are very serious and theycould have the effect of invalidating thisreferendum," Epps said on Thursday night.

Interviewed about the possibility of multipleballoting yesterday, Epps said he wanted towithhold further comment until Monday's Committeeon College Life meeting.

But despite all the allegations, Vice PresidentJoshua D. Liston '95, the official administratorof the election, said last night that the councilhas received no complaints about the balloting .

"There have been no official complaints", saidListon, adding that the council could not respondor act to change referendum procedures withoutthem. "No student have written the council."

In many cases, students voting in thereferendum were not required to showidentification, they said. The procedures appearedto be most lax in the Freshman Union, where therewas no effort to confirm voters' identities.

"If you wanted to, you could vote as many timesas you wanted," said Edy Y. Kim '97. "You just hadto pick a name" of a person who hadn't voted.

David L. Huang '97 said council members tablingin the Union even rebuffed his offer to displayidentification before voting.

"I offered to show them my ID, but they didn'twant it," Huang said.

Joshua E. Greenfield '97 said he illegally casta vote in Leverett House which was almost counted.

Greenfield said he was asked simply to sign asheet of white lined paper.

Greenfield said he then asked the councilmember "in jest" if the two pre-frosh accompanyinghis could vote.