New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-17
MORGAN FOR MACHINES.
Superintendent of Elections 4dUases
Several Changes IN Lac.

c,aorea W Morgan State Superintendent Of Elec-
tons for the Metropolitan District IN ms
eight annual report forwarded to the eIo'eInol
Yesterday recommends that voting machines Dc
substituted for voting by paper ballot; that as the
identification of the elector is the most important
feature In the registration Of electors each
eIector be required TO sign both the registry anu
the poll book and that g. registration ceFLllcS1'o
be issued TO him, which he must present on h'Aeo-
ton Day; that the law should be amended 50
that an elector must live longer than thirty days
in a district, and that all the duties OF an IN
snector of election which require Judgment OF
clerical work be eliminated. He also recommends
that the Massachusetts form Of ballot ne consiu-
cred a subject for legislative delberauoh-
The report contains nearly twenty photographs
of registration cards. books, tally sheets and state
rnents Of canvass as samples of careless WORK oy
election officers. Superintendent Morgan reviews
the work Of the deputy superintendent or electons
in the last city election in preventing thos9 WIZ
fraudulently registered from voting.
at Is not possible TO say at the close OF the year
1903 what percentage Of the frauds Of Election
Dav 1903. ia yet exposed and punished" says the
report. .,.
The renort saws that the activity OF the deputies
resulted in Large shrinkage OF the logging mouse
and hotel vote The decrease in the BoWery loog-
ing house VOTE as compared with 1874 ailouiite1
to u per cent, according to Mr.. MoTgans nguFes'
In the year the office Investigated 1879 deaths
and 5000 removals. ordered $3.50 challenges on
registration days, made up nStS agsLeSeIAA4s A'VS
names of men who were to be challenged and then
arrested If they registered. and the deputies mace
1921 personal Investigations Of electors Less
than six hundred challenges were issued LOT G4eo-
ton Day. but the list OF those to be arrested NUM-
heres 7S6 Of which less than a hundred and sixty
presented themselves at the polls. Warrants TOT
the arrest Of $50 men were placed with the police
to serve On Election Day. and of these 6"S did not
snpear at the polls The arrests for the year were
eIn ~ which 616 were made on Election Day. The
total amount of bail forfeited was $25oo Referring
to the work Of New-York election officers the re-
port says: +, o,o,,s wars have
called attention TO the absurd stupldlty OF HI
fnnaI Isxttv of election officers Of the city OF New
York in the performance of their dutes' Sqcn
charges in years past have received only passing
nofice THIS year however, the result OF the eiec-
Hon in the city of New-York was SO close and the
!eqiect and admissions Of the election ofhcers SO
Tefent as to arouse the public mind 10 reallza-
4iop of the dangers which lie in continued mac
ton" 800 4,-,4 -, f.- .1,a -,oe+
serious of the unlawful acts of the inspectors was
fba erhftrarv refusal to permit citizens VINO hao
lawfully registered to cast their votes because re-
Deaters had voted their names before me law
fny registered electors had presented theInseIves
10 vote He adds. Such a decision was quite gen.
eTal"