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The decision of a five-member elections committee to overturn last November's Screen Actors Guild (SAG) presidential elections earlier this month and schedule a new election starting on February 11th, has led to increasing cries that election rules are being violated. Supporters of the November election's winner, Melissa Gilbert, are accusing the elections committee of exceeding their power in an attempt to get her defeated opponent Valerie Harper into office. The turmoil created by the decision to hold new elections is part of a running power struggle between activist supporters of Gilbert's predecessor William Daniels---who led SAG on a six-month strike in 2000, and moderates who feel that the strike was a mistake.