The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-04
THE TIMEs-RlCHMoND. VA SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1891.


as having voted at said precinct.
ALLEN FELVY. - This man is
recorded as having voted at said pre-
clnct. though he lives at No. 1906 Cedar
street, Richmond city, and not in said !
precinct.
j. r. SOUTHWARD.-This gentleman
IS dolly recorded as having voted at
said precinct, though he has not lived
there for years
j. NJ. OWENS-This gentleman Is re-
turned as having voted at said precinct.
though he has not voted at said precinct
for some years. and resides in the lower
end OF Hanover county
&. {. ROBINSON.-Mr Robinson is re-
turned as having voted al said precinct.
Mr.. Robinson is a well-known citizen Of
Henrico county. and now OF the city
of Richmond lie resided ut this pre-
cinct for a number Of years but removed
therefrom about two years ago, and now
resides on west Grace street tn this city
and is not registered and did not vote
at said precinct.
r. T.. CRITZER. removed from the
county over year ago, yet he is returned
as voted.
T. T. MARTIN, returned as having
voted. though ne has been living in the
city of Richmond for the last i've years.
W. G. cartwright. lives in Rich
mona. AT -llJ y enable street. ana mas not
lived in the county for over year, but
is returned as having voted.
J. +. BAkER.-Alr. Baker is n prominent
gentleman Of this neighborhood. and is
the first assistant superintendent Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio shops. Mr.. Baker
did not vote at the election. and there is
this curious history about the recordation
Of his name. During election day young
man under twenty-one years of age came
up 10 the polls and offered to vote as
J. T. Baker lie was promptly challenged
and informed that that was not his name.
and that J. r. Baker was dead. Ills vote.
however. was received I'm the name of }.
+. Baker The living Bakers name, how
ever. is recorded as voting Instead Of the
dead one
The following Is list OF some colored
people who have moved away long since,
had no right TO vote and did not vote yet
were recorded as having voted:
WASHINGTON NASH has been In
Philadelphia three years
JERRY MINTER has been in Philadel-
phia five years.
MAI. JOHNSON has been in Washing
ton for year.
Amply WHITE lives I'm Richmond.
W. y. DAY has been I'm Lynchburg
three years. and registration-bOo shows
! him To- have been transferred
MAJOR PRICE transferred from pre-
cnct. as shown by Observation-Disclosures.
THOMAS ARCHER moved TO the city
year before the election.
SAMUEL JENNINGS lives in Balt-
/ more. been there two years
The Times forboars 10 continue the
! publication Of this list. ms what has been
/ shown will surely suffice % convince an
! unparalleled mind OF the farce OF the So
I 4 60.
| is possible TO continue TO pile UP this
| evidence. and, among other things. could
show that in quite a number Of instances
! the same names are recorded as votiEg
/ twice. and I'm some Instances the names
thus recorded as voting twice were not
voters at all, but what has been said is
sufficient.
he Trick
The Times, having thus unfoded the
true condition of the affairs al this pre-
| cinct think, that 70 can inform the pub
lie as TO the device by which this sort
of chicanery is practiced in elections I'M
der the much-admircd electoral board sys-
TEN Of Virginia, and all done under the
| guise Of law.
This is the way 70 is done: Upon the
( pon-bOok is entered. the nisht before cleo
| ton, the names OF about such a number
of people as it is proposed 10 take in
| order TO yield the result desired. These
names are taken from the resistraton-
book, and are made up. i'm the main. from
| persons who have removed away, or VINO
! have died, or who VIII not likely vote.
| These names are entered. not on the first
sheet OF the poll-bo0k. but on the inner
/ or second or third sheets. and the number
| OF ballots corresp bonding with the names
! are placed I'm a ballOt-bOX. When the
voting is begun The names OF the voters
are recorded on this poll-book down TO
where Observation-Disclosures list begins For
instance. one hundred lines are left for
names The names of one hundred voters
are regularly recorded, and when the lire
one hundred and one is reached the clerk
simply turns over the pages of the book
and continues % record the names, with
the two hundred additional added
In word. commences at three hum
dred and one instead of one hundred
and one. The ballct-bOX is then changed
with the additional names in il ana pro-
vision arranged, either then or later In
the day. for putting in it the hundred
ballots 20 reprcs nt tine voters that have
voted during the day. This is generally
done the night before when the others are
put i'm, and apportioned between the
parties as the election officers choose
Then the vote proceeds regularly from
the three hundred on To- the end OF the
day. and the ballots are regularly de-
posited as east. lt will be- observed that
i'm order successfully 10 carry out this
plan the election officers viii have all
~ be in accord. judges and clerks, which
Is usually the case in the rotten pre-
cincts where The fraud is mainly COM
mitted. and it is not at ait necessary
I'm order 20 work this pian even %
change the boxes, as the judges and
clerks are alone allowed 70 be in the
room from the opening OF the polls TO
the end OF the counting of the vote and
tallyiug the same, that is from before
| sunrise until such hour AT night as they
choose TO announce the result and they
can as we'll place ballots representing
The one hundred names for which blanks
are left on the poh-boOks at the beei1-
ming OF the book. i'm the box the mig q
before. as the day or night OF the cleo
ton. app0rsi0nlng them between the
parties and thus making 80 unnecessary
% change the ballOt-boxes. The usual
plan rs. however. 10 change the ballOt-b0X
so as 10 Doe able az the beginning OF the
day. with a due regard for the semi
blance of fairness, 10 present an empty
| baNot-hoX 20 the innocent multi dde on
the outside OF the window. In the present
inst.s,ce DO is really believed that owing
90 the unsupported presence OF the de-
! termned white men who persisteHtly
kept the tally-shect Of the persons VINO
voted that the poll-bo0k THAI had been
| arranged and provided the night before
| had 70 be rewritten on the night OF
| election which Was a very simple Trims