The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01
BIG COUNTY VOTE
Topeka and Shawnee County
Show Much Interest.
More Women win Go to Polls
Than Ever Before.
.21,268 REGISTERED IN CITY
Impossible to Estimate Number
of Votes in County.
Double Election Boards To Be
Used in Topeka.
21,260 REGISTERED IN CITY

Topeka and Shawnee county will go
to the polls tomorrow to cast ballots
for their favorite candidates
Altho there has not been much
comment on the general election in
the county until the last two or three
days, it is evident that genuine inter-
est will be shown in the baIloting to-
morrow. The national election, of
course, overshadows all the rest in the
minds of the voters. but more than
ordinary attention. it is thought, will
be given to the state and county fights.
$4,000 to Vote in Topeka.
The total registration for the gen.
eral election in the city is 21,268 and
it is believed that nearly $4,000 of this
number will cast votes. The women
are turning out in greater force than
ever before, the number of women
registrants in Topeka being 1884. 1t
is almost impossible to estimate the
number of votes that will be cast in
the county outside the city. Even the
experts refuse to hazard a guess.
But there is no doubt that the vote
will be large, especially if the weather
is nice enough to permit the women to
get out in comfort.
Double election boards will be used
in the city in all precincts except the
first of the First and eighth of the
Second, where the number of votes
cast were under 200 at the last general
election. The receiving board will go
on at o'clock in the morning. The
counting board will come to work at
10 o'clock and begin Immediately 20
count the ballots for national and state
officers. The ballots will be sent to
1fa ~F
they are counted.
No Double Boards in Country.
None of the country precincts cast
sufficient votes at the last general
election to entitle them to a double
election board with the exception of
Rossville, Oakland, Highland Park,
West Soldier and Auburn precincts.
Voters. when they call at the booth,
VIII be given ballots bearing the names
of all candidates of all parties for all
offices. A straight party ballot need
not be voted at this election, unless
the voter desires. The ballots must
not be signed.
The city clerks office has received
several calls from persons living out
side the city but working in the city,
asking If they may be permitted to
vote in town instead of going home.
Under the law this cannot be done.
lily Clerk COVelf said To-Day
Polls Open at O'Clock.
The polls will open at O'Clock in
the morning and close at o'clock in
the evening in the city. In the county
they will open at a. m. and close at
s p. M, with the exception of East and
West Soldier precincts and all pre-
cincts in Topeka township. The coun-
ty commissioners have ordered that
these polls open at a, m. and close at
6 p. m
The Third ward in Topeka leads all
others in the number of registrants.
Here the women almost equa1ed the
men in number. OF the 4,SS7 regis
trants, 2,430 were women.
Expect Republican Majority.
A heavy Republican majority is ex-
pected in this county, altho it is be-
lieved a large vote will be cast against
Henry Allen for governor. 1t is pre-
dicted that the bond issue for the fil-
tration plant will carry by a big ma
jority in the city. but the dopesters
prophesy the defeat of the three state
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