The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-10
FEW VOTERS
HERE ARE HIT
BY AGE RULE?
Exact Number Disqualified As
Entered Only ''Over 2l",
Cannot be KNOWN Until the
Papers Are Seen.
ELDER WOMEN REGISTER

Whether any considerable number
OF Wayne county voters who registered
last Saturday will have to be re-reg-
fstered October 4, the final registra-
ton period, because they failed to give
their ages or because they gave their
ages as "21 plus" or lover 21 years"
cannot be determined until w. H.
Brooks, county auditor, and his assist
ants have had the opportunity Of ex-
amining all the registration papers
and the registration books. This will
be task of considerable proportions.
Thursday the state board of election
commissioners made a ruling that reg
istration was not legal in the event
voters failed to give their specific
ages. 1t is stated that in many in
stances voters, particularly women,
gave their ages as "21 plus" or lover
21".
The registration books Of the 30th
precinct, sixth ward, RichmondJ do
not list the ages Of any of the women
registrants in the precinct, and in
some instances the ages of the men
registrants do not appear.
Whether the ages of the voters Of
that precinct are listed on the papers
the registrants made out will not be
known until the auditor has had the
opportunity of examining them.
Mr.. Brooks stated Friday that he
believed only a very small percentage
Of the voters who were registered last
Saturday failed to have their ages spe-
officially recorded.
One Woman Refused
He said that one woman living in
the fourth precinct. Wayne township,
registration clerk.
The clerk told her he would report
her registration. as she had made it
enter her name in his registration
books. The auditor informed the clerk
that he had acted properly in the
matter.
Auditors deputies who are working
on the registration books state that
in the books they have examined so
far there are only very few people
whose ages are lister as "over IL.
Thinks $4,000 Were Entered.
Auditor Brooks has not yet been
able to ascertain the total registra-
ton in Wayne county. but he hopes
to have all his registration work CON-
pleted in a few days. He thinks the
total registration will approximate
13 0OO
The work of registering the voters
in some precincts was not conducted
as satisfactorily as desirable, with
the result that several registration
books had to be returned for correc-
ton.
There were quite a few instances
of people registering in the wrong
precinct, these mistakes being charg-
ed against the registration officials.
Elder Women Register.
Those who have examined the reg
istration books are commenting on
the fact that in practically every pre-
cinct, eight out of every 10 women
who registered were over 80 years of
age, and at least nine out of every
10 women were over 25 years of age
One of the problems which Republi-
can and Democratic party leaders
will have to solve before the next
registration, October 4, is how to in
duce young women between 81 and
% years to qualify for participation
in the forthcoming election.
'It appears that our young womeE,
as a whole, are taking absolutely no
interest in political affairs. Just how
they can be interested is a question
confess have no answer for at
this time" remarked a well known
political leader.
County Did lta Duty.
Registration in the districts outside
of Richmond was much heavier than
in the city. This was especially true
in the smaller towns. In Hagerstow2
the supply of registration blanks sert
there by the county auditor was ey
hausted and the registration officials
had to have 200 extra ones printed.