The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-03
ERRORS IN THE BALLOTS,
TR0UBLE IN MANY DISTRICTS OYER
THE GEORG Il PAsTERS.

the HiaIiots Hnvoived-A Ballot Clerk Taken /
TO Court-Cnndidntcs for JudEeships raixea
Up on Some Ballots In the Bronx BorsuGh. |
Reports of trouble with tho pastors kept COM |
ing in at the George headquarters all day yes
terday. Some reported that there were no
pastors on their ballots at all; others stated that
the pastors had been stuck on their ballots In
punches OF ten, obscuring two or three Of tho
names Of other candidates in the George col
umn. Inquiry showed that the main trouble
was due to the fact that the police had not seen
that the pastors were at the polling places
when tho polls opened. Hundreds of voters
were around clamoring for ballots before any
pastors arrived. SO the poll clerks handed out
the ballots as they were originally printed, and
citizens voted them in that way. ,
Another difficulty was that the clerks had
not been properly instructed rs to how to put
the pastors on the ballots. In several districts
the clerks were sticking them on in punches of
ten, which is the way thoy were sent out. The
result was that the pastors ran out early in the
day and hundreds Of ballots had to be cast with
out pastors.
Corporation Counsel scott's opinion on the
validity of the ballots cast without pastors, as
given to tho George men and other inQuirers,
was as follows:
III the " Ia marked over the Jeffersonian
ballot, and there Is no pastor over the name OF
the original candidate, the vote does not count
for Henry George, although it does count for all
the other candidates underneath. The only
| votes that can be counted for Henry George
arc those where the paster is used.
'The fact that the name IL the same docs not
make the slightest difference. Tho name OF
the man originally printed ON the ballots and the
name of the present candidate are tho same.
But:they are different individuals, and no vote
ms nv intnpAad fn- piln Harry lsnOrpS can
count for him under the law unless his name
appears on the ballot or on u paster.
Supreme Court Justice Gaynor rendered q
decision last Saturday to the effect that the
pastors must go on the ballots. The Bureau OF
Elections was instructed to attend to the mat
ter. and IL the ballot clerks failed to put the
pastors on the ballots they were either negli-
gent in their duty or else laboring under q mis-
apprehension of what the legal requirements
were. AS to the other candidates, II does not
seem to me that they should be affected NJ all
BY the absence of the paster. 1t will Affect Mr..
The George men hurried for relief to Police
Headquarters after hearing what MIR; Scott had
to say. They got 1t from President Moss, who
Il entirely disagree with Mr.. Scott. ! hold
that when the %elector has placed the cross mark
in the circle at the head of the Democracy OF
Thomas Jefferson column, the ballot Is perfect,
ly legal, and II must be counted for MIR. George"
following letter, which no said he had sent to
every police Captain In the city:
Notify al inspectors 9s Of election 9 that t. hs. .S so%s 70
with the name Of Henry George. have mot been
not been attached at ali. In these cases questions
may arise Is to the counting of the vote. We advise
though no paster he attached or the paster be mis.
placed. Where the intent of the voter is apparent i
full should be counted but should be returned with
the package OF void or protested ballots.
The trouble over the George pastors came up
| in the HOrkyilo Police Court. where Edward
L. Night, a ballot clerk IN, the Twenty eighth
election district OF the Nineteenth Assembly
F. Lynch OF 206 West EighIieth street, who al
legged that a defective ballot was given to him
&C. George sesS NTH hI g ls %d'' psnei} Tn IL the hsI last q Or bank
on a number of the ballots and protested, but
no heed was paid to him. Then he made the
Night said that the George pastors had not
been received from the police when the polls
1 %ess si AZ . 9ei SS,Gos str sss station Iers ~ to s ssns e sh sas
write the name Of Henry George IN the blank
added that he had written the name on twelve
ballots when the passters arrived At S;23
took q formal complaint against Night, and
then paroled him for examination Tomorrow,
The discovery was made in the middle OF the
forenoon that the voter. in nine election dis
tricts in, the Thirty fifth Assembly district were
pfsms court toI oa wSo aeTe NOT NOT i S%saiGs IN IN that ihs DIS as.
trict. BY some error the names Of the candi-
dates in the Second judicial district had been
printed on the ballots instead of those running
In the First. Thus in the Republican column
the Supreme Court section read: For Justice
joseph 4. Barr" It should have read: For
Justices Of the Supreme Court for the First die
SON" In tho Democratic and Ship columns
the name Of Willard Bartlett was printed as the
Gharles II. io Van me Br sSlon and Franc Francis iH n. Scott tt
for. the First district, and SO on all across the
ballot: The ,sss SOCIALIST, Unless they saw the F mis- us
Enoch X. Thomas and Gustave preisler; the
prohibitioniSts for C9leridge A Hart, when
Democrats for Ezra 4: Tuttle when William
the George men, who were running Charles II.
Sis,rt srI fo9n Sad pr GIsSgge on r tb ahd bsiiot in t Ise fdFss
district, no nomination"
The nine districts ran zigzag fashion across
the AsssmblE district toward the Bronx, which
districts; They were the First, Second, Fourth,
them. and probably more than half had voted
Ex.Judse Browne brought information OF
the mistake from Tammany Hall to Police
sidered by the Police Board, and orders were
issued to the election officers In the nine dis
t @Is'sk to a wsf Io t ths 't TSasrs 70 t Mnite ee tRs eSadi d tes
thing that could then be done. The proofs IN
the Election Bureau We're then examined and
found to be correct. The mistake had been
made in the printers office. 49,
The effect Of the error promised not to be
serious, at least 80 far as the candidacy of Jus
tice Van Brunt was concerned, since his cleo,
ton was assured. 1t would simply reduce the
vote for. him somewhat. In the case of Mr.
Scott and Mr.. Andrews, n question might arise
to be settled by the courts. The board wat
served, during the afternoon with an order
from the Supreme Court TO count the ballot and
replied that it had done all that was in III
power, Nothing was left but TO await the re
suit. In any event, the board considered thai
tho ballot was not invalidated by the printer
error. Its effect was upon the misplaced can
didates only. II they did not run in the district