The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-22
RECOUNT IN BEDDING IS
 DECIDED UPON AFTER 4
 CONFERENCE AT DANBURY
Petition for Recount Will Be Presented to Judge Gager in the Superior Court Some. Time Next Week. 1t
Special to the Farmer.)


 Bedding, Oct 22.-As the result of a
 consultation held at Danbury on Thursday between A. G. Barnett, chairman of the Republican town com rnittee, and Attorney Ives the bringin g of a petition to secure 8 recount of the
 ballots cast at the recent election in this town was decided upon The pc
 tition will probably be presented be
 fore Judge Gager of the Superior court
 some day next week. MT. Barnett
 was accompanied by B. A. Pfnkney,
 Deputy Sheriff Banks, who was one
 of the counters. and Henry s. Osborn.
 MT. Ives thought the facts of the case
 as presented. to him constituted
 grounds for action. The facts outlin-
 ed were these:
 On the first count Charles Sanford
 Der and B. A. Pinkney more votes
 than were credited to them on the final count from which the figures were officially declared by John Muen- nich, the moderator. MT. Barnett's recollection was that the loss to MT. Pinkney was 23 votes. Registrar E. M. ted down the figures of the first count at the time of their announcement and they agree that these figures were 109 for Sanford and 107 for Pinkney. As the latter was given only 93 votes. by the official declaration his loss was on- ly IA votes instead of 23. The 14 ad- ditiona1 votes, however, would have going to show that the official figures were wrong was that a discrepancy exists between the totals cast for diff ferent sets of opposing candidates on the ticket. For example the total for the two opposing candidates differs from one half the total recorded for the four selectnan candidates. As eV- cry position on the ticket was voted for, there being no rejection of name without a substitution, the totals should coincide.
 There were altogether four counts T11 fI,O Rre-4 vided into three piles. =. The six coun- ters worked in pairs and each pair re- ceived one of these piles. When the first count had, been finished there was an exchange Of these piles. The sec ond count gave the same result as the first. Then at MT. Sanford's sugges- ton third count was made, and this indicated a difference by which MT Pfnkney suffered a loss of IA or 23 votes as the case may have been, enough in any event to cause his de- feat. All or practically all of this loss came from the pile of ballots counted by B. B. Banks and Harry Lounsbury A fourth count gave the same result as the third and was accepted and of Only one shift of the piles of ballots was made so that there was no verif1- cation through that process of the figures given by the third count whereas the second count pro duced results identical with the first after there had been an interchange.
 when MT Barnett went to the town clerks office to get the official figures he found that no copy of them had been filed there as required by law, an omission due to the negligence of w. E. Hagen, the assistant town clerk who acted as town clerk on election day To get the figures for use in pre- pairing the petition it was therefore necessary to write the secretary of state. Another copy of the figures is sealed up in the ballot box alongside the ballots It is the desire of MT. Barnett to have the recount made be- fore the November election.