The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-31
ARAT|ONS FOR
CANVASS|NG VOTE
County Clerk Haas Appoints
Clerks and Gets Ready for
Election Night.
MEANS AN EARLIER COUNT
HARDSHIP WILL BE WORKED ON
THE INSPECTORS IN SMALL
TOWNS WHO MUST REPORT
IMMEDIATELY.

County Clerk Haas has completed
his arrangements for the reception
canvass and tabulation of the vote in
Wayne county at the forthcoming ell
ection, November 6. The canvass
will be under the supervision of the
election commissioners. three in
number, as the new law prescribes
and in addition the County Clerk has
selected a force of clerks who will
make the actual canvass from the tai
ly sheets as they are submitted by
the election inspectors. The force
of canvassing clerks will consist OF
Charles Newlin and Harry Smith, Re
Gus Sudhoff, Democrats. Under the
law the clerk will be in readiness to
receive returns at 6 o'clock p. m. on
the day of the election and the cleo
ton commissioners and the force of
clerks cannot desist from their labors
until the full vote of the county has
been gone over and tabulated.
Get Supplies Saturday.
Next Saturday, between the hours
of o'clock in the morning and ;.
O'Clock in the afternoon, the election
inspectors of the sixty-four voting pre-
cincts in Wayne County, must put in
personal appearance and receive the
election ballots and other necessary
supplies, for which they must give
receipts. The election inspectors are
allowed per diem and mileage for this
trip to the clerks Office to get the
election supplies and in case any one
of them should fail to put in an ap-
pearance at the expiration of the linn
it, the clerk is empowered to order
the sheriff to .'go forth and find" the
dilatory one. However, it is not rea-
sonable to expect that any of the six
ty-four election inspectors will from
any cause fail to appear and receive
his election supplies. This is not a
new thing to the inspe ctors. but the
returning of the votes to the clerk
is altogether new and this will be the
first general election in which the sys-
tenn has been tried. There is no
question that it is a vast improve
ment over the old one, in that it re-
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mediately" upon the completion of the
count in his own precinct, to the Of
flee of the county clerk, with the tally
sheet, and ballots. Instead of permit
ting a full day to intervene between
the election and the time of canvass
as the old law provides, the complete
official returns of the election will
have been compiled before break of
the following day.
Hard on Small Town Inspectors.
The inspectors in the small towns
and in the rural precincts will feel
the new law more keenly than those
in Richmond precincts. for they will
be required to start for the Wayne
county temple of justice at whatever
time they have completed the count
In some instances, drives of eighteen
miles will be nece ssary to reach the
city and these inspectors will likely
not get into the city much before
morning. However, TO meet the popu-
lar demand, the inspectors or some
of the other election officers will tele-
phone the results to Republican head
quarters and the result in the count
will be known ''unofficially' some
time. probably, before the Official
count is completed.