New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-04
Frauds Committed in New Orleans in No
venlber, 1872.

B. p Blanchard, who was the Fusion
under oath the following facts, showing the
frauds committed in the First District:
That in furtherance of this scheme he
caused a careful compilation to be made of
the lists of deceased male persons over
twenty-one years OF age who had died
since the close of the registration in 1870,
which lists were required by law to be fur
nished to him by the sections of the various
cemeteries in the parish of Orleans, and
that said lists, so compiled were carefully
cOllated with the eg!stratiOn books and
the registry number and the election pre-
cinct in which the deceased was registered
were noted. That instead of carrying out
to the full letter the provisions of section
seven Of tlee reg istration law above re-
ferred to he caused to be erased from the
lists of registered voters only the names
of such deceased electors as were well
known III the community, and in cases
where the deceased was an obscure person
age "a large majority of the whole number
being composed of such) he caused to be
made out O duplicate registration certiti
cate in lis name, the same TO be retained
and used at the general election as herein
after set forth That for this purpose he
caused to be printed fac-simiies OF the blank
used in 1870, which were in different style
of type from those intended 10 be used in
1872, in order to have them flied up with
the names of deceased electors as above
stated. That the number of duplicate GER
tifcates, so filed up for the purpose afore
said was as follows, more or less For the
first ward, 76; second ward, 50; third wara
2i3-making 40i fraudulent votes.
F. Il. Blanchard testlies that he instructed
the 1f rpCI-tr4 for
the parish of Orleans that in all cases
where persons who had been reg istered in
1870 in other wards than those in which
they resided IN 1872. and who should APP
ply for registration on account of change
of residence, to require such persons TO
surrender the certificates of regis ration of
1870 to them (the assistant supervisory, to
be by them returned to the office Of depO-
nent, State registrar of voters ostensibly
for the purpose OF cancellation and erasure
on the books, but in reality to be preserved
and voted on at the ensuing general cleo
ton, in the manner hereinafter set forth,
and that this course was pursued and per
sisted in notwithstanding the formal pro-
test of the United States supervisors Of cleo
ton.
The certiiic ates of registration so returned
deponent caused to be examined and
sorted out in his office and such as were not
marked or checked in any way by the
United States supervisors OF elections were
preserved to be voted upon in the wards
from which they were originally is
sued and only such were returned to the
ward officers for cancellation and erasure
as were deemed unfit or unsafe for use by
repeating voters. The number SO cancelled
was to the following extent only: First
precinct 80, second precinct 43, third pre-
cinct I0l, making pa fraudulent votes used
by the reissue to the Fusionists of registra-
tration papers of 1870 and voted by them
for the Fusion party.
Deponent further Gays tina. he also in