The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-11-23
RECOUNT WIPES OUT
MAJORITY OF SYMMONDS
democratic Candidate is Declared Elected to
Al .'7 Office as Recount is Concluded at
'y9 Four This Morning.
SCHMITT LEAD Is INCREASED
Official Canvassng Board Changes It's Mind and Goes
Official Canvassing Board Changes Its Mind and Goes
Right Through With Count in Contested
Election for Two County Offices.
BULLETIN.
(From Saturdays Daily

BULLETIN
IF am satised in my mind that sufficient number
of votes have been cast for Mr. Barnett elect him. there
will no contest farther said District Attorney Frank S.
Symmonds this morning. "But account of the loyalty
which has been shown by my friends who have support
ed me- owe to them to be satisfied in my mind that
Mr. Barnett had this sufficient number of votes not
going to make any fight technicaty if reasonable in
depreciation of the votes cast show that Mr. Barnett
was the choice of the people for this Office"
Norris Barnett elected District Attorney of Keno
sa county at the recent general election by majority of
two votes This the decision of the official canvassng
board of Kenosha county just before daybreak this
ing when the board completed the of the vote
the demand of Barnett after the official canvass of the vote
returned by the election boards had reported majority
Of tWentyone votes in favor of Frank S. Symmonds the
Republican candidate for the office The
med the election Of John Schmitt Democratic candi
date for the office of Register of Deeds Bert Shaw
the Republican candidate and the final figures given
after the recount of the than ten thousand ballots in
the county showed that the majority of Schnt had been
Increased from 102 shown by the official return from the
polls to one hundred and twenty votes
Court Contest May Follow.
Both of the candidates were on hand when the final
count of the votes after the dizzy anight session of
the official canvassng board. There
to whether not the recount of the ballot would be fol
lowed up by the court contest but both candidates during
the recounng OF the votes had been armng themselves
with material to be used in court the necessity appeared
District Attorney Symmonds made copies of MANY of the
ballots which he believed questionable and it is
peced that these copies will be used the basis for his
decision as to whether not he will carry the matter into
Of of the ballots made at the session of the board
but denied the candidates. and they informed
that the ballots had been reseaed and that if they
opened again it must be at the order of judge he Cir
cult Court There congratulations and condolences
the tired workers closed up the books and started
home just before five o'clock this morning. There were
mutterngs among the lans later in the morning but as
yet nothing has been filed to suggest that there will be
further court contest.
Symmonds Figures 1t One
Frank Symmonds who defeated if the result of the
recount stands declared this morning that he not
ready to declare the official closed that he be-
heved that the members of the board would be willing
give further consideration to of the ballots
We discover by the figures which have that Mr. Bar
nett credited with just vote than am. There
be doubt to whether the recount showed the
exact result as the men were tired and there
question after delay in the count to just where the
board had left Off 1t possible that there was an over
tapping vote in this There three ballots
which am satisfied had been intended for me- and be-
eye that legal investigation would show that if they
were not counted for they should not have been count
ed for Mr. Barnett The board plans take up some of
these questions when they have rested alttle of
the opinion that should to the reopenng of three
OF The precincts for consideration of the ballots ques-
ton According to the ultimate figures hands, the
vote was Symmonds 4447 and Barnett 4448 l unable
coQn Tor the apparent discrepancy Of one vote
pared with the figures suggested by the canvassng board
e@ s@ a',a Meet Again Monday Night.
Mr. Symnonds brought the fact that in one precinct
votes had been cast than accounted for on
the tally sheet and he held that this just serious
condition had been shown in the third ward where five
votes counted on the tally sheet counted for the
balots.v-7
Inc DOafd VIII meet again on Monday night to finish up
its report and it is expected that this will prove an inter
esng session Members of the board were asked not to
give uthe result of their recount until after this meeting
but the facts shown were around the city early in the
morning.
Mr. Symmonds declared that should there be any nten-
ton GA his part to take the matter into court that there
woud be nothing done in the matter today until after
the meeting of the board Monday evening.
Decide to Make 1t a Night.
thad been the original plan of the canyassnp hoard To
count but two of the wards Friday evening, but when
the would change the result finally 70,
members OF the board reluctant Iuated
long after midnight when tremey
OF the board
had
the
o Deeh counted result
MADE known and little election
candidates
through night mad something
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