The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-10-28
Democratic Committee Strikes $50
Names From PdscogouIo Poll Books

$50 voters will be stricken from
pascagoula poll books under a
ruling recently received from the
state attorney generals office,
Karl Wiesenburg, chairman of
the city Democratic executive
committee, announced today.
Persons to be stricken from the
poll books are those who reside
outside the city. but have con-
tinued to vote in Paseagoula cleo
tions without maintaining bona
fide residence. They will be in
eligible to vote in either the forth
coming special mayoralty cleo
ton, or in future city Democratic
primaries, Mr.. Wiesenburg said.
Announces Action
The city executive committee
announced the action in a legal
publication carried in the Chron-
icle-Star and Advertiser this week
which says:
"The executive committee, act
ing on the ruling of the attorney
general, will purge from the rolls
any persons not residing within
the corporate limits. Persons who
may have heretofore voted in city
elections. but whose homes are
outside the city limits are request
ed not to come to the polls as
they will not be permitted to
vote"
2.282 City Voters
Circuit Clerk Vertis Ramsay
said the check and compilation of
city poll books has been complet-
ed and shows a total of 1892
voters in the city's three pre-
cincts. Precinct registration is as
follows: City Hall, 1859; S. Pas
cagoula. 456; N. Paseagoula, 557
The total figure will be reduced
by the number of names stricken
from the rolls by the executive
committee under the action out
lined above.
Mr.. Ramsay also said he had
failed to find a record of regis
tration on the city books of 10
persons heretofore listed on the
poll books. The names of the 10
persons are carried in the legal
publication. They are requested
to see the registrar.
Questions submitted to the at
torney general by the city Dem
ocratic committee were:
Rules On Questions
y Where a woman, who is a
qualified elector of the city mar
ries a nonresident of the state
F. moves to the state of her
husbands residence, may she
thereafter continue to vote in
city elections on the grounds that
she still considers Mississippi to
be the state of her residence?
. Several qualified electors
-. have for several years past
resided outside the state and do
not maintain residences in the
city. Are they eligible to vote
where they claim intent to re-
turn to the city?
- Several electors now on the
poll books have moved their res
idence and their families to other
cities in the state. but continue
to vote in city elections claiming
intent to return. Some have
been absent as long as 10 years.
Are they entitled to vote?
Kendall Replies
In his reply Assistant Attorney
General James T. Kendall said
that the supreme court has held
that a wife's legal domicile is that
of her husband and therefore she
is not eligible to vote in other
than her husbands legal domicile.
The two remaining questions,
he said. involve factual matters
and must be decided in the light
of all the circumstances of the
Individual cases.
A person may be temporarily
absent from the place of his legal
residence and not lose his status
as a qualified elector provided
he has not established a new
domieile and has the bona fide
intent to return to the place of
his residence. Mr.. Kendall said.
He added that the opposite of
this would disqualify former res
idents Of Pascagoula who have
established new residences else
where.
Other members of the city exec
utive committee are J. Guy KrebS,
secretary, and p. W. Cox.
The native Lueayan Indians.