Evening star., 1938-04-27
RULESARE| ISSUED
FOR D. c. BALLOT
Voting From 9 Am. to 9 Pm.
to Permit Results to Be
Known by Midnight.

The Board Of Election Supervisors,
consisting Of six Municipal and Po-
lice Court judges, today issued the
balloting rules for the District suf-
frage referendum Saturday.
The rules promulgated at the Po-
lice Court Building provide for vot-
ing from m. to pm. at designated
school houses, and collection Of the
ballot boxes Immediately after the
polls close
The ballot boxes will be taken to
1917 H street NV, where the ballots
will be counted by experts from q COM
putting machine company. The result,
is it expected by William H. Mondell,
should be known by Saturday mid
night.
The Board Of Election Supervisors
include Police Court Judges John P
Mcmahon, Edward M. Curran and
Hobart Newman. and Municipal Court
Judges Ellen K. Raedy. Nathon Cay
ton and Almond w. Scott.
Onicials Rules Listed.
The official rules are as follows:
81. Polling places will be open from
am until 9 pm.
o. All persons over the age Of
81 years who live in the District Of
Columbia are eligible to vote. whether
or not they maintain a voting resi-
dence elsewhere
"3. All persons must vote in the
precincts In which they live, and no
person will be permitted to vote in
any precinct other than that in which
he lives.
q. Each voter must register with
one of the registration officers before
he receives or casts his ballot
IS. No person will be permitted to
cast ballot for another person, and
no person will be permitted to vote
more than once.
"6 Ballots are to be marked
secretly.
~. Ballots will not be signed and
will not in any way disclose the iden-
tity Of the voter.
g. The only authorized election
officials will be the registration officers
and the election clerks. At least two
registration officers and two election
clerks will be designated for each
precinct. At least one registra ton
offieer and one election clerk must be
on duty at each polling place at all
times during the hours Of voting.
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"9. Ballot boxes will be sealed when
filled and at 9 pm. or as soon there
after as all persons actually within
the polling places and waiting to vote
at 8 pm. have cast their ballots.
Election officers sealing ballot boxes
will write their names across the seal.
40 All ballot boxes will be delivered
to the Board of Election Supervisors
or their authorized representative by
one of the election officials of each
precinct, Immediately after the closing
Of the polling places, and will be taken
to 1917 H street NV. and there
counted"
The 1lth rule, agreed upon after the
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drafted Informally to read as follows:
Police, firemen and other city Off
cials on duty may vote at the precinct
in which they are on duty"
Parade and Rally Planned.
A torchlight parade and rally Fri
day night to arouse interest in the
referendum is being arranged by the
Junior Board of Commerce as one of
the most spectacular features of the
campaign to bring out the vote.
The torchlight parade route. which
was worked out today. will wind
through downtown Washington and
culminate in a rally in the public park
in front of the Commerce Department,
at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
There stirring program of music
and speeches will be presented, not
only to the assembled thIong, but by
radio to the Nation.
Arrangements for this celebration,
which is expected to have the flavor
Of old-fashioned torchlight professions
in the States, where political interest
reaches fever heat, are in the hands Of
Bradford Ross, attorney, son Of Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross.
Speakers ut Rally.
Speakers at the rally are expected
to include . business man, profess
sional man, representative Of Govern
ment workers and . representative Of
labor. Civic organizations interested
in participating in the rally are urged
to telephone District 1885.
Meantime, members of the Fedora
ton Of Business Mems Associations
have pledged themselves to help turn
(See SUFFRAGE, Page A-3.)