Evening star., 1946-11-02
Ballot Box Locations
To Be Listed Tomorrow
For PIebiscite Voters
500 Judges, Clerks and
Other OfficioIs in Tuesday
Poll Tuke Ouths

A complete list of the 81 pre-
cincts and $50 polling places for
Tuesdays District suffrage pleb-
iscite will be announced tomor-
row to inform voters exactly
where they may cast their bal
lots.
An estimated 500 judges, poll
clerks and other officials Of the un-
official referendum took their oaths
Of Office last night at mass meeting
in the United States Chamber OF
Commerce building, 1915 H street
NV.
Judge Brice Clagett of the Mu-
nicipal Court of Appeals admins
tered the oath, which included q
pledge by the volunteer officers that
they would perform their duties to
the end that the will of the people
may be fully proclaimed and
known"
Instructed In Rules.
Committee chairmen instructed
the staff in detail on the rules and
procedures for conducting the bal
loting on the two issues of local and
national suffrage for voteless Wash
ingtonians. The straw vote is in
tended to influence Congress in the
Forthcoming campaign to obtain the
franchise for Washington.
Frank C. Waldrop, chairman of
the Committee on Districts and Fa-
cilities for the plebiscite, explained
that voting headquarters in the
board room of the District building
will be open for business as soon
after am. as possible on Tuesday
The telephone exchange at voting
headquarters on Election Day will
be Executive 1850.
The judges and poll clerks were
instructed to notify headquarters.
from each box every third hour dur
ing the day on registrations up to
that time, so that progress of the
voting may be tabulated periodically
for reports to the public.
Prompt Opening Necessary.
James R. Kirkland, chairman of
the plebiscite Rules Committe, ex-
planned in detail the regulations
under which the referendum is to
be conducted, and Clifford H. New
ell, chairman of the committee on
precinct organization, outlined the
duties of each volunteer worker.
The staff was instructed to open
the polls promptly at 9 am, and to
close them just as promptly, but
not before every prospective voter
inside the voting station or lined up
outside at pm. has cast his ballot.
Senior judges who were sworn in
last night were authorized to admin
lister the oath to judges and poll
clerks in their precincts. Those
senior judges who have not been
sworn may take the oath at the
offices of the Board of Trade, which
is sponsoring the referendum.
Mr.. Newell announced it is
planned to have an accountant pres
ent at each of the polling places to
be in charge of tabulating results.
The accountants are to be provided
by colleges throughout the city"
Students to Be Ushers.
Also helping out at each polling
place will be four high school stu
dents to act as ushers and to aid
judges and clerks generally.
For persons unable to get to the
polls, Mr. Newell pointed out, a
sufficient number of judges has been
provided SO that one judge and one
poll clerk may be free to go to such
persons, accept his ballot and cast
it for him.
Patients in hospitals will have
their ballots cast in the precinct in
which the institution is located
rather than at his home precinct in
order that this type of voting may
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