The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-08-16
MAYESVILLE MANAGERS ANS
WERED.
County Attorney J.. ID. Jennings Re-
plies to- Question PropOundcd BY
Maycsville Election Managers.

me managers at the MayeSVi,le
box state in your issue of the 18Th
as follows:
Further, it is very strange that
the boxes at Shiloh and a box in tie
city OF Sumter We're not likewise
thrown out If the votes were thrown
out of the box at Shiloh on accoun.
of the voters names not appearing
on the registration books, why was
| not the whole box thrown out? This
would have given the yes" side a
still larger majority. If a voter in the
city of Sumter cast his vote in the
! wrong box. why was not the box
thrown out? If he voted in the
wrong box, he could not have had
his name of the poll list OF that
| ward or box, consequently he was an
| illegal voter and the managers of
that box allowed him to vote illegal
| ly. We would like for some one to en-
tighten us along these lines. Per-
ii"p" VIC iioiOi dpie county attorney
can do sO.''
Yes, l think l am able to enilgit-
en- them. The two votes referred to
at the Shiloh box were two men
who became Of the age Of twenty-one,
as am informed, sometime in March
of this year, and when they request
ed that they be allowed to vote, they
not having registered, the managers
at said box allowed them to vote by
placing their ballots in envelopes.
The party who voted in Ward One.
did not have his name on that regis
tration book and he was likewise re-
quired by the managers to place his
ballot in an envelope. When these
boxes We're opened and these ballots
found in the envelopes, and the rea-
son written on the backs thereof. the
managers held that the parties so
voting were not qualified electors
and therefore said votes were not
counted. In these cases the commits
sioners knew which were the illegal
ballots, as they were in envelopes,
and could easily separate them from
the legal ballots. 1t seems that the
managers at Shiloh and Ward One
were familiar with their duties and
did not allow illegal votes to become
mixed with legal votes. II the Mayes-
vile managers had required those
voting, whose names were not on the
registration books. to vote in evel-
opes. like the managers at Shiloh
and Sumter did, then the fourteen
votes in the Mayesville box would
have been in envelopes and not so
mixed with the legal votes as to make
1t necessary to throw out the whole
box. instead Of throwing the illegal
votes. These fourteen votes, how
ever, not being voted in envelopes,
but mixed with all the other votes in
the box, 1 would like for the Mayes-
vile managers to enlighten me, by
informing me how the commissioners
could have separated the fourteen IL
legal votes from the forty nine legal
ones? The Mayesville managers fur
ther state. accordingly it was pre-
sumed that the election was to be
conducted as a regular primary cleo
vile had followed the rules govern
ing primary elections, then if a
party presented himself to vote, and
If he was allowed to vote, and his
name was not on the poll list, then
In such case it was the duty Of the
managers to require him to vote in
an envelope. The reason for this, Of
course, Is to have them so separated
from the others, that the managers.
executive committeeman, or COM
missioners could identify the votes of
such. parties so voting from the votes
of those whose names were regularly
on the poll list. Therefore, Mr.. Man
ayers, if you had even followed the
rules governing Democratic primar-
les, you would have required those
voting, whose names were not on
the registration bOOkks, to have voted
In envelopes. Is it your fault or that
of the commissioners, why the four
teen votes were SO mixed with the
others that II made it neces-
sary for the commissioners to either
count fourteen illegal votes or throw
out the entire box? Which would you
have done II you had been the COM
missioners and the commissioners
had been managers instead Of you?
Would you have counted the fourteen
illegal votes, or not being able to