Evening star., 1932-11-06
HEADERS EXPLAIN
BALLOT MARKING
Elimination of Districts Com
pIicates Vote Casting
In Virginia.
BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.

by stan correspondent OF The Star.
| ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.
November 5.-Democrats and Repub-
licans In Virginia are confining Their
last-minute campaign efforts to the in
struction of prospective vot IS In the
, ,, proper marking of the ballot. While
ordinarily simple, the ballot has become
complicated by reason Of the elimina-
ton Of the congressional districts and
the necessity for the election of the nine
members of the House of Represent
atives at large from the "a candidates
for this Office whose names appear on
| the ballot
The names of the candidates appear
on the ballot In single column. First
there are the presidential and vice presi-
Dental candidates, together with their
electors, and then the candidates for
the House Of Representatives.
Must Strike Out Names.
Under the Virginia law it is necessary
| for voters to draw a line entirely
| through the names of the candidates for
| whom they do not wish to vote. In
marking the present ballot the voter
will start at the top and run a line
completely through the names of the
presidential and vice presidential can
didateS against whom his vote is cast
He will not in any way mark the names
of the candidates for whom he Is voting
and 1t will nCt be necessary for him to
strike out the names of the presidential
electors appearing under each presi-
Dental and vice presidential candidate.
In voting for members of the House
t1f tatS will
to strike out at least Is names, leaving
not more thar. nine The voter may,
however, strike out as many more than
Is as he desires
Ballots will be invalidated and thrown
out where more than one each OF the
presidential and vice presidential can
didateS' names are left or where the
names of more than nine candidates for
the House of Representatives are lett
on the ballot without lines drawn en-
tirely through them.
Three Are Unopposed.
The names of candidates for the
House of Representatives are grouped
on the ballot with the nine Democratic
nominees first, the six Republicans sec
ond, the three independents third, three
/ Of the Socialists fourth, the one prohl-
bitionist fifth, and the remaining two
Socialists sixth.
Since all candidates for this office are
running at large, voters are being urgeo
by the various parties to cast their
votes for the candidates or the party to
! which they belong in group, striking
out all other names OF candidates for
this Office.
In the districts as constituted before
thev were eliminated by order OF the
nf hnnp1Ic
are three in which the Democratic in
cumbents have no Republican opposi-
ton. These are the fourth, fifth and
eighth In the fourth the nominee is
P. H. Drewry, in the fifth, T. 6. Burch
and In the eighth, Howard w. Smith
j. E. Spaulding is the Republican nomi-
nee in the latter district, but he did
not file as a candidate at large so his
name does not appear on the ballot
He is, however conducting campaign
to have Republicans of the Northern
Virginia area write his name on the
ballot
Strength Comes From Districts.
S. Otis Bland, Democratic incumbent
of the first district. is being opposed by
Henry A. Wise. Republican. In the
second district Menalcus Lankford, Re
publican incumbent, is opposed by Col
gate w. Darden. jr.. Democratic former
member of the House of Delegates.
Candidates from the section formerly
comprising the third district are An
drew Jackson Montague Democratic
incumbent, and George Cole Scott, Re-
publican. In the sixth they are Cliff
ton A. Woodrum. Democratic incum-
bent, and Fred w. McWane, Republi-
can. A. Willis Robertson. Democrat, and
]. A. CARRIER, Republican. are running
in the former seventh The latter is a
former member Of the House In the
ninth John w. Flanagan, jr., Demo-
cratic incumbent, is being opposed by
Roland E. Chase, Republican.
While all of these candidates are
now running at large, it is believed that
their strongest individual strength and
opposition still comes from their former
respective districts.
Three Independent Candidates.
The three independent candidates are
DR.. William MoSeley Brown and Charles
c. Berkele, candidates for Governor and
attorney general. respectively, on the
anti-Smith Republican coalition ticket
in 1929, and R. Lindsay Gordon, an
anti-Smith Democratic leader in 1929
Both Dr. Brown and Gordon are from
the former eighth district and Berkeley
from the second.
The one prohibitionist candidate, A. J.
Dunning, jr, is from the former sec
ond district OF the Socialist candi-
dates, Herman R. Ansell is from the
former first, Albion James Royal and
Mrs. Angie M. Norris from the former
third. Winston F. Dawson from the for
mer eighth and David G. George from
the former seventh.