The San Francisco call., 1906-11-16
ELECTION ERRORS
COME To LIGHT

The Registrar and Election Commits
sioners hope to announce the ofncial
result of the election in San Francisco
next Wednesday. The board had mn
ished the last precinct of the Thirty
eighth Assembly District at the hour
Of adjournment last evening. Blum
ders and discrepancies multiply as the
official count progresses
When the sealed returns from the
Seventh Precinct of the Thirty-seventh
District were opened yesterday the
Commissioners found that no figures
had been entered on the Official tally
sheet. The names Of the inspectors
and judges, Samuel Booth, Albert
Freber, M A. Warren and P. L Joyce,
were signed TO the document and they
were summoned to appear before Com
missioners Mcguire. Gator, Jewell,
Gallagher and Voorsanger today. The
semi-oficial returns show that 405
votes were cast in this precinct. BY
reason Of the bIuncer of the election
officers, Gillett loses IA, Cooper 81 and
Hosmer 32. The same kind of a blum
der was disclosed when the Official
tally sheet OF the Third Precinct of the
Thirty eighth Assembly District was
opened. Here Hosmer loses II and
Cooper 40 The vote in the precinct,
was 4S7- The election officers. Lee
Schwartz, Samuel Mooser and S. Hoff-
man, have been summoned to appear
before the board.
In the Seventh Precinct of the Thir-
ty-eighth District the onlcial tally
sheet contained no figures. 1t was
signed by Henry Lena, John W. Lewis
and other election officers. The semi
Official returns place the vote in the
precinct at 261 In this precinct Cook.
for Appellate Justice, loses 20 and Hos
mer. for Superior Judge, gains Is.
Leon Samuels. who is representing
Judge Mogan at the official canvass,
says that the Judge has gained forty
votes so far Justice Cooper, according
to the tally Of his representative, has
lost l43 votes.
In the Tenth Precinct of the Thirty
seventh District Judge Lawlor loses
2f5 votes. The election officers, after
erasing the vote in two of the columns,
with the intention, no doubt, of leaving
the figures stand at 245 in the remain
ing, or third column, continued the
erasing until Lawlor's entire vote in
the precinct had been scratched out.
Inspector Thomas A Brown and ].
Cans will be called upon TO explain the
incident.
Isidor Golden's name was on the
ticket in four places. In each of three
columns the machine of the Fifth Pre-
cinct, Thirty seventh District regis
tered in his favor 269 votes, but in the
fourth column only 242 votes were reg
istereo. The Commissioners account
for the discrepancy on the ground of
weakness in the indorsinE bar. The
highest vote, 2ss, was Tailed for
Golden.
The Commissioners. after hearing
the statement Of Inspector Counter OF
the Seventh Precinct, Thirty-fifth Dis
trict. that Cook should be credited
with only ninety y-nine votes, allowed
the 199 as given in the official re-
1urEE IT was obvious to the Commits
sicrers that Cook was credited by
clerical error with 100 votes more than
he had received. bu, they held that
they had no right under the law. as In
terpreted by the Supreme Court, To
change the figures. In giving Cook
1ss, the vote cast for Presiding JUS
t.ce. Court OF Appeals. exceeds by near