Arizona republican., 1917-04-25
FREE AND EASY
 VAS ME ETHODSIN
 kEOHANE RANCH
Go and Come As You Like Was Election Rule As Voters Took Ballots Out to Mark At Their Leisure

The championship belt for election informality will doubtless be awarded where former Governor Hunt received thirteen votes. the socialist candidate for governor secured one vote and Gov ernor Campbell got a goose egg. That precinct came before the surerio' court yesterday in the governorship contest.
 The attorneys for the conteStee also put in and verified the precinct regis ter of Bisbee Precinct No. l, Cochise county, for comparison with the poll list of the precinct. This register was offered several days ago, but it could brought in by County Recorder Krebs of Cochise.
 Only one witness was examined with reference to Keohane Ranch precinct, and he was A. B. Wright, the present owner of the ranch and the inspector at the election. The judges of the election were John W. Johnson and Leopold Martinez and the clerks. R. G. Hamilton and wife.
 MT. Wright described the election equipment. The ballot box was in the main room of the house, an adobe. There were three other rooms attached to this. all connected with it and each having a separate outward door. Each of these rooms, said MT. Wright, was used as booth and in addition to the three there was all out doors for a fourth booth if needed
 The election board did not use a booth at all The members marked their ballots at the table where they sat after having talked over among themselves the merits of the various candidates. Johnson, one of the judges, it appears, is a person of indetermin- ate residence For the last six years he has been a watchman at mine in Yuma county and has properties of his own in that vicinity. MT. Wright did not know where Johnson claimed his residence but rather thought that he claimed a dual residence.
 It was also brought out that some of the voters came from Planet which is in Yuma county. The testimony the day before showed that four of the Planet voters cast their ballots at Swansea; so it seems that they scat tered themselves pretty much all over that part of the state, though there is no record that they went out of the state to vote.
 On cross examination which was en- tirely friendly and designed to assist MT. Wright in offering some eXplana- ton of the circumstances that the members of the board has sat to- gether around the same table to mark their. ballots. Mir Wright said that he had taken no notice of the marks any other voter put on his ballot and he supposed no one had taken notice of his marking. There was really no cause to do so; curiosity on that point had already been abated for said MT. Wright, We had already told each other how we were going to vote" MT. Wright describing the giving of bal lots to voters, said that they took them away to mark them. It made no diff ference to the board where; into one of the voting room booths or anywhere on the ranch, just so they brought them back"
 On redirect examination, Judge Sloan suggested that the witness had voted for Hunt. Mir Struckmeyer ob- jected Judge Campbell observed that a statement by the witness would be no betrayal of confidence since the vote for Hunt at Keohane Ranch had been unanimous Tt was not" said Mr. StruckmeyeyA "Oh, well" said Judge Campbell, there was only one vote cast for the socialist candidate. MT Wright said that everybody else was voting for Hunt and he thought that he might as well do so, presum- ably to show the state of harmony that existed in that precinct.
 In presenting the register of Bisbee Precinct No. 1, Judge Sloan said that it was desired only to compare the last 10 names of the poll list with the register. The last one hundred names l,ad hoor, talcor, hocails thax cQyered