The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-03

| in making said canvass the said county clerk,
I'll. w. McFadden, took the poll books of the
different precincts, and read the results of the
figures and tallies in said poll books, and this
affiant and the said Francis wrote the same
down in the said canvass books; that the said
county clerk, McFadden, first read the results
as they were written out in full in the back of
the said poll books, and the results so read were
by this affiant and the said Francis written in
the said canvass books, and then the said conu-
ty clerk read the results as they were written in
figures after the names of the different candi-
dates in the body of the said poll books, and
this atfiant and the said Francis compared the
said results so announced by the said county
clerk with the said results written by them in
the said canvass books; that when the said
county clerk came to the result of the vote cast
for district judge in Union precinct in said
county, he announced the vote cast for G. w,
Norris for the office of district Judge as forty
six. and this af1iant and the sal Francis both
had written in the said canvass books forty
votes for said Norris for said office in said pre-
cinct, as had been announced by the said county
clerk when he read the results from the back Of
said poll book written out in full: that there
upon this affiant and the said Francis were
about to scratch out the cipher in said forty
and make a six therein, when the said McFad-
den remarked in substance that we should not
scratch the same out but that we should take a
pen and make a tail to it," and this afiant in
accordance with said instruction of the said
county clerk added a straight line to the cipher
in the forty so credited to the said Norris in
said precinct in the canvass book in which he
was writing, and in that way the result for said
Norris in said precinct became ~forty-six instead
of forty that this affiant at the time the said
county clerk read the results from the back of
the said poll books, in addition to writing the
said results in said canvass book, wrote the
same down in lead pencil in a small pass book
which he carried in his vest pocket in order
that he might more easily add the same up:
that when the change was made in the vote of
the said Norris in said Union precinct as above
stated, he did not think to make any change in
said small pass book, and the same remained
therein as was originally read by the said coun-
ty clerk when reading from the results from the
back of the said poll books; that afterwards
this athant added up the amounts in said pass
book before the completion of said canvass. and
gave the results thereof to the public without
thinking of the change he had made in said
canvass book that had not been made in said
pass book that said canvass was commenced in
the latter part of the week in which the said
ELECTION was held, and was completed on the
following Monday, so that a Sunday interviewed
between the commencement of said canvass and
the completion of the same; that when said
canyassing board adjourned for said Sunday.
the only addition of the several amounts of
votes cast in the different precincts of said
county was made before the said change of said
vote In said Union precinct was made. and con-
sequently the vote as given out for said Norris
at the time OF SAID adjournment for Sunday was
in fact six less than the said canvass books act
ualiy showed he had received; that when the
said canvaSslnS board convened on the follow
ing Monday the SAID canvass books, or at least
the one used by this affiant, were in the same
condition as when said canvassing board adj
lOurned Tor over Sunday, and no change had
been made therein; that on said Monday the
votes from the different precincts were again
ADDED and the various certificates and said can
vass, books signed up; that said addition was
the first one made after the said change of the
SAID vote for the said Norris, and the same gave
tne sala Norrls SIX more. votes. making a total
OF l,3,6 Tor SAID Norris in said county, which
was the correct amount that the said Norris
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