The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-08
MANY VOTERS
IN CITY MAY
LOSE VOTES
State Officer Says Ballots
Must Be Refused,
REGISTRANTS VISITED
Precinct 3 Ward 3, Said 10
Have Suffered Practice,

Charge, hat registrar, in various
paris ui The city who are friendly
- certain candidate have been dele
eating registration authority to
deputy registrars who have made a
house toulouse canvass aud registered
persons 90 visited. were checked up to-
day Persons living IN Precinct five
OF Mard three declared they had been
registered by man other than the
r'cginr, registrar
x l. Wood assistant attorney gem
cr4l. declared this morning tha,
"dsputir'ng' OF power by registrars IS
Illegal and that registrations made
by such persons arc void. IL is said
that the practice has been discovered
in more than onc precinct in this
cts and II IS possible that all ballots
cast by person, registered By 'depu-
ties, will he challenged and thrown
ont on election day Several hundred
ballot, thus NAV be invalida,ed.
Registrars Authority.
Woods patemen, follows
There i, no law which forbid, !
precinct registrar from going To- the
r-Nidcnces ni prospective voters within
hi precinct and issuing registration
certificates 10 those entitled thereto
The law doe, No, require a ptecinc,
registrar to have an office NJ head.
quarters 10 which persons must apply
| Tor registration.
therefore the registrar may legally
make registration at any place withir
his precinct, Registrars are required
10 take an oath OF office and admins
ter odthS Such Officers have no au.
thority TO appoin, and vest deputies.
agents, o. Assistants with authority to
make regiS'rations, or ill in registr,.
tion data over theii signatures signed
10 blank registration certificates.
Hence, registration made by such per.
sons and in that manner are void. II
is a violation loi law to register per
sohS in such miEat:.
"a void certificate OF registration
entities IN. holder to no privileges, SO
thai II IS the dutv OF election officers
to refuse tde hcldef OF such certiH-
cate the right ct ,ufirsge thereund,t
when such conditions ate known TO
exist"
( { \ Gardncr. election Judge IN
PrecnC; five. Ward three. saws:
Last Tuesday or Wednesday. John
! II Barry who runs a hotel at Third
and Hudson street. called at my home,
~ West Filth street. and asked my
Wlic and sister. in-law. Miss Hattie
Bradford, 10 register. They told him
they understood they had TO go to the
registrars headquarters 10 register.
bu, Barry assured them this was not
J necessary
Then Barry began talking strongly
Tor Walton, declaring tina, he wasn't
caring to register any but women who
would vote for Walton He said IL
my wife and her sister would pledge
,hemSelve, 10 vote for Walton that he
would call for them election day in an
auto and drNyc hem to and from the
/ polls
Registrar Visited.
When my wife told me of this 7
went TO George Pletsch, registrar in
my precinct, and pointed out that |
thought this was illegal Ple,sch said
the attorney general had upheld the
practice When | insisted on being
shown, pletSch said the law cover
ing house tu-houSe registration was in
a pamphlet he produced. bu, when
asked him to read It TO me he refused,
telling me TO look It up Il ! cared 20.
looked all through the book but
found no such authority
Barry formerly served OIL the eleo-
tion board N my precinct as a counter.
but served notice recently that he
could not so serve in the primaries
because he had been engaged to work
for one OF the candidates, presumably
Walton
.Ple,sch /, clerk Of the election
board in my precinct. and II he cared
to do 50 could pass certificates Of
registration obtained illegally. and as
It would t'en be mp TO me a. Judge
To either accept or reject them I
naturally was interested in learning
the status of Mr. Barry's work"
Free Ride Promised.
Mrs Gardner said
when Barry called he exhibited
a lis, Of names OF women, about
score ] should say, and said they
were all women who had pledged
themselves to vote for Wsitou and
ge, free auto ride to the polls Hs
told my sister and ] he woNld cAI)
ior US in car II we would v0te lov
Walton. but that otherwise hs v0a)dW'o
take us 10 the polls He dt1~t sseIo
TO want 10 register ~ ualsss ~ Wego
Walton supp0tffs. We tod Mn ~