The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-19
Voters League to Ask
Council to Instruct All
Election Officials.
FOR UNIFORM SYSTEM
Declares Uniform System of
Counting and Tallying Votes
Should Be Established.

Declaring that their investigation
had demonstrated that there was an
appalling lack of uniformity in the
manner of counting votes at the vari-
Gus polls in Kenosha, the Independent
Voters league at a meeting held in
the G. A. R. hall on Tuesday even
ing passed a resolution to present to
the city council request that all of
the polling officials of the city be
given instruction as to the legal man
ner in which votes should be counted.
The league will further recommend
that if the conditions require it new
polling boards should be appointed to
assure uniform system Of counting
and tallying of votes.
"We have made an unofficial inves-
tigation of the method in which votes
were counted at the recent primary
election" said one of the officials of
the league. "This has convinced US
that a uniform system should be
adopted. We do not mean to say that
any of the polling boards counted
the votes in a manner contrary
to law, but some rules should be
laid down so that all count and tally
them in a similar way
To Get Out Stay at Homes.
| The resolution from the league
will be presented to the city coun-
ell at the next regular meeting, ac-
cording to the statement of officials
of the league.
The league also voted to take steps
to bring out the stay-at-home voters
at the regular election. Statistics
show that at the primary less than
nosha county exercised the right of
franchise. The league intends to
arouse some part of the remaining
sixty per cent to the Importance of
voting. Just what steps are to be
taken to bring about this result were
not disclosed.
l Adopt Constitution and Bylaws.
I The league adso adopted constitu-
ton and bylaws for its organization,
which will be made public in their
entirety in the near future. In
these the purpose of the league is
defined as follows:
''The purpose of said organization
shall be to promote the election of
honest and capable men and women
to the public offices in the city and
in the county of Kenosha; to make
investigation and to make public the,
records and qualifications of all cam
didates for Office; to suggest to the
public the best qualified candidates
for each Office regardless of political,
religious, racial or other utilization;
to use its best endeavors to secure
participation in elections by all vot-
ers who are qualified to vote thereat;
to consider and act upon the matter
of improving civic and political con-
ditions existing from time to time
within the city and county of Kenosha
and through proper committees to
cooperate with the proper public Of
fcials to remedy any unsatisfactory
conditions existing"
The constitution provides for the
continuance of the system of sending
out missionaries to candidates in
any election in order to determine
their stand on the issues in the
election. It opens the way for an
endorsement of candidates in the
event that this seems advisable.
No Candidates officers.
One of the important provisions of
the constitution is that it provides
that no public official or candidate for
public Office shall be member of the
executive committee or an officer of
the league. This is a new regulation
as during the past election one Of the
candidates was also an official of the
league. 1t was stated that by the
adoption of the constitution he was
automatically relieved Of the duties
of his Office.