Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-19
THE SOLDIER-V0TING LAW.
It's constitutionality Denied,
4 JUDGE wM. SAMPLES OPINION.
John X. Mcbride, Court Of Common Pleas.
11A..... 1si. WAYNE County, Ohio.

John X; lMoBrido,) Court of Common Pleas.
Henry Lehman. Wayne County, Ohio.
JUDGE SAMPLE: The parties to this pro-
ceeding, being qualified electors of Wayne
county, were opposing candidates for the
office of Probate Judge Of said county, at
the annual election, held on the second
\ ed majority of all the votes polled within
the county of Wayne, and without said
county but within the State. But when
the votes cast at various military posts and
camps without the State and returned to tile
Clerk, were, In pursuance of the provisions
of the act of April 13 1863 authorizing alb
sent soldiers to vote, added to and counted
with the vote polled within the State, the
Z result was changed, and Lehman had ma
! jority Of the aggregate vote, ascertained in
this manner, and was duly declared, by the
Clerk and the Justices called to his assist
ance in,ppening the poll-books and count
= ing the votes for said office, polled at said
election, to be duly and legally elected to
certificate of his election. From this action
of the Clerk and the Justices, Mcbride APP
pealed, and took the steps necessary tobring
the case into this court for decision.
B He,insists, that the votes cast without the
State are illegal and ought not to be count
ed as part of the vote polled at said election,
for the reason:
l. That the act of April 13, 1863, to au-
4, thorize qualified electors in the military
service to vote, ETC., does not authorize votes
torbe polled without the States; and
2. That If said law does authorize such
vote it is unauthorized by the Constitution,
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