Evening star., 1946-11-08
|0'Conor Leading
By 1882 in All
But Precincts
BoItimore Election
Officials Summoned
On Discrepancy
By tho Assoeiafsd Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 8.--On the
basis OF ofdcial canvass figures from
all but three Maryland counties and
Baltimore City, Gov. O'Conor today
held q lead Of. 1882 votes In his
photo finish Senate race with Re-
publican D. John Markey.
Based on canvass results from II
counties and unofiicial figures on
all other polling places except four
missing precincts in Baltimore, Gov.
O'Conor had 236, ,298 votes, to 234,-
916 for Markey.
Ofi1cial figures from Prince
Georges County cut Gov. O'Conor's
unofficial vote there by SIS ballots
and Mr.. Markey's by 214. The can
vass report from Washington County
upped Gov. O'Conor l05 from the
unofficial tabulation, Mr.. Markey g.
Mr.. Markey made a net gain of
10 votes when ofiicial tabulations
were made by the Montgomery
County Board Of Election Super
visors.
OfYiciaI Count Is Smaller.
Both candidates received slight
ly smaller count officially than they
did in the unofficial tabulations.
Coy. O'Conor was credited with
1854 by the board, whereas he had
been given 1905 unoficially-a loss
of 81 votes.
Mr.. Markey was scored 15,049 Of
ficially and had been credited with
an unofficial count of 1901, a loss
of IL votes.
Unofficially, Gov. O'Conor led Mr.
Markey by 844 votes in Montgomery
County, while the official figures cut
this lead to 825 votes.
A report on the last of the miss
ing county precincts, in Kent Coun-
ty. together with the canvass re-
suits there, cut Gov. O'Conor's lead
by seven votes. He picked up a
single vote with the addition of a
soldiers ballot to the official figures
for Hartford County.
The Baltimore Sun, meanwhile
reiterated that Gov. O'Conor was
elected, pointing out that he stood
to gain some 200 votes from dis
puted returns in Baltimore's 9Th
ward, where the Board of Election
Supervisors has ordered an investi-
CATION into what it called an ap-
parent discrepancy between the
number Of voters and the number
of ballots cast.
Officials Summoned.
Summonses were served yesterday
on Benson c. Seymour and Eliza
beth C. Young, Democrats, and
Cora F. Gettman and Lambert A.
Ward, Republicans, who conducted
the election in the LIST precinct OF
the 9th ward.
Election supervisors said 1t would
be late today before they reached
the first Of four city polling places
from which returns were lost.
The four conducted the election
in the 1st precinct of the 9th ward,
where the supervisors found re-
turns which they said made it ap-
pear that 583 ballots were cast by
only 293 voters.
The return sheet listed $40 votes
for Mayor Theodore r. McKeldin,
unsuccessful COP candidate for
Governor, and 261 for his Demo-
cratic opponent, William Preston
Lane, jr. 1t listed 346 for Mr..
Markey against 225 for Gov.
O'Conor.
Although only 1876 voters were
listed as having used one of the
two voting machines at the polling
place, the supervisors said, 271
Markey votes were recorded from
that machine. Other: COP candi-
dates got fewer than 100 votes each.
Recount Demand Indicated.
Mr.. Markey's headquarters stuck
to an earlier statement that final,
official returns would see their
candidate elected by 500 or more
votes. They also inquired into
stories that two persons had been
allowed to vote under the same
name in several instances.
Although there was still no off,
cial demand for a recount by Re-
publicans, the possibility was indi-
Gated strongly in counties Gov.
O'Conor carried by narrow margins.
The latest returns:
Senate