The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-12
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Will GATHER POLL
RETURNS TUESDAY
Auditors Throughout North Da.
kota Will Cooperate With
Newspapers
WILL PUBLISH STANDINGS
State Divided Into Districts;
Eight Publications to
Participate
WILL PUBLISH STANDINGS

An army Of workers scattered
throughout every section of the state
will keep telephone and telegraph
wires humming after the close of the
polls In the North Dakota presidential
primary Tuesday night to provide the
information necessary to tabulate
comprehensive report Of the voters
expressions.
The Associated Press election bureau
at Fargo will be the clearing house
for returns from every one Of the g.
235 precincts in the state, and will OPP
crate through the combined efforts Of
approximately 1850 persons.
The only agency In the state to COL
lect returns before the official count
is made, the Associated Press will
gather and disseminate the returns in
cooperation with the s.affs of every
daily newspaper In the state, precinct
officials. county auditors, and tele-
graph and telephone workers.
Auditors Are Pivoss
North Dakota's So county auditors
will act as pivots for collecting returns
III their respective counties. Precinct
officials. Immediately after the close
of the polls, will furnish returns to
the county auditors by messenger, tel
egraph and telephone.
Daily newspapers which will be i'm
portant cogs in the election returns
system are the Fargo Forum, the
Grand Forks Herald. the Minot Daily
News, the Bismarck Tribune, the
Jamestown Sun, the Valley City
Times-Record, the Mandan Pioneer,
and the Devils Lake journal.
The state has been divided into
zones, with each of these member
newspapers of the Associated Press
responsible for obtaining returns from
the counties in their area. The re-
turns Of the county will be compiled
by county auditors, who in turn will
furnish them to the newspapers COL
lecting returns from that zone.
Transmitted to Fargo
Returns collected by the newspapers
Immediately will be transmitted to
Fargo by telephone and telegraph for
compilation Of returns from over the
entire state.
A separate circuit will connect the
offices of the daily newspapers with
Fargo.
BY this arrangement. the daily
newspapers Of the state will be In
constant communication with the AS
ISOLATED Press tabulation bureau, but
not only for sending returns from
their zones, but for receipt Of news
giving the standing Of candidates, and
of the issues voted on. This will be
separate from the regular facilities,
so that the election news will not in
terfere with the transmission of the
usual state and national news report.
The Bismarck Tribune will be in
charge of one of the zones. and will
compile returns from Burleigh, Kid
der. Emmons, Logan, Sheridan and
Mclean counties.
To Publish Standings
Standings Of the various candidates
will be announced from time to time
to the newspapers, who will have the
information available for immediate
publication.
Special telegraph and telephone ia
cilities have been arranged for coll
lection Of the returns. Telephone cir
cults have been installed so that pre-
cinct officials may report to their
county auditors the votes In their
districts as soon as they are tabulated.
Extra facilities also have been pro-
vided for county auditors In trans
hitting reports to newspapers In their
zone.
Results of the state election also
will be transmitted to the st. Paul
Bureau of the Associated Press over
leased wires for dissemination
throughout the entire country.
Operation Of the election bureau
will continue for several days until ac-
curate and complete tabulations are
available on the standing Of candi-
dates.