The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-05

in the polling place ut or before 0 o'clock
In the evening may vote.
Tho Offices to be filled are:
Governor. Lieutenant-G overnor--S Sec
rotary of state, Controller. state Treas
urer. Attorney General and State En-
gineers and Surveyors.
Congressman and members of the Sem
ate and Assembly in every district in
the state.
Justices OF the Supreme Court-three
in the First District. two in the Second
District, one in the Third District. one
in the Seventh Disc
Local Omces to Bo Filled.
IN addition to the above there are
Offices To- be filled In many OF the coun-
ties. and town officers and local Judges
to be elected IN various parts OF the
Statas.
Also in New York county there Is
a Justice of the Municipal Court to be
elected in the Fourth Municipal Dis
Aldermen TO I'LL q vacancy from the
Ninth Aldermanic District.
In Kings county there ars to be chosen
two County Judges, n Justice in the
second Municipal Court District and
aldermen to flll vacancies In the Thirty
seventh and F'ifty-fifth Districts.
In Queens county a County Clerk Is
TO be elected, and in Richmond Sheriff
For the first time women are to cast
a vote in this state in a general election
Also for the first time women rs enrolled
members OF the two leading parties will
serve as election inspectors.
Practical politicians expressed the be-
lief last night that the returns would
be later In coming In this year than
ever before. In the first place up to
this year the polls have always closed
at 3 instead OF O'Clock. Up to this
year, when the sepcific provision was
put in the law that every person In
the polling place at the time OF closing
should be permitted to vote, there was
y judicial construction of the old law
that no more votes could be cast after
the hour for closing.
II the new law is literally construed
in large places such as public schools
scores of people will receive the privi-
legs OF voting after o'clock in case OF
a Jam at the last minute. 1t is pre-
dicted that because of the increase In
the size OF the total vote through the
enfranchisement of women there will
be much congestion In many Of the
polling places at the last minute. Al
though the number OF election districts
State In order to provide for the new
voters Il Is not thought that adequate
provision have been made In some
cases
Long. Slow Count Predicted.
There are 1888 election districts In
Greater New York and 4.637 in the re-
mainder Of the State. A new feature OF
the law that will be tried this year FOL
the first time Is the bringing in a fresf
set Of officers 10 canvass the ballots
Hitherto the same persons who had
been on duty all day had to canvass the
vote, But the fact the work OF count
ing the ballots will be new to the womer
and that they will quite naturally and
properly insist upon understanding the
reason for everything that Ia done will
II IL predicted, make the task o.
counting the vote a much longer on
than heretofore. wnen 1t has been don'
by men, most of them old hands at th'
game who had worked together on thu
same Job for years
And entirely aside from the counting
Of the ballots the work of gathering tn,
returns In this city will take mucl
longer than in previous years It Il
thought In the first place the tele
fraph and telephone companies servic
Las been crippled by the infiuenzi
epidemic This followed a general re
duction in the service due 10 war de
inands. the taking away OF competen
employees and the crowding Of the wire
for war messages.
Precautions Against Frauds.
For the first time in many years tn
Western Union Telegraph Company wi
not have a service OF its own. No In
situations have been issued to keep III
of1ces in the smaller places open an
longer than the usual hours. THIS WI
mean that the Associated Press an
other news agencies will have TO rela
the returns In from small places by tei'
phone to points where they may be pi
on the wire.
Every effort IL to be made TO prC
tect the rights of legal voters and as
to prevent the casting of frauduleI
votes. The State Superintendent
Elections will have his deputies In ever
community. In this city the Honest Ba
lot Association will have watchers ;
tho polls. United States Marshal NJ
Carthy Of the Southern District Of Ne
York, including all the Hudson Riv'
counties, wired tho chiefs OF police
his district yesterday that agents OF Il
Department Of Justice and his deputi
would be on hand to assist them In 80
Ing that tnero was no Violation VI u
Federal law against corrupt practic
in Congress elections.
The Board of Elections announced In
night that persons qualified to vote we
entitled TO two successive hours OF a
sence from their employment or servi
in order to vote without any deductit
from their wages.
Attention was called to the fact tn
any mark other than cross mark
black lead pencil in one OF the votiI
squares shall make the ballot void. Al
erasure outside q square shall make q
entire ballot void. but an erasure
wrong mark In a square shall mako u
ballot void only az to that particul'
Office
Judges will sit in the Supreme Court
handle any election cases that may con
up. and all the Magistrates courts
the city Will be open all day. Al
man or woman whose vote may be cha
lenged may swear It IN. taking q
chance of prosecution for perjury. II
IL found the person swore to a fal
statement as to his or her qualification
70 vote.
Gov. Whitman, Republican nomin
.or. Governor. expressed the create
yaa .tax1,t he