Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-08
CheckonIn Initials
Further Slows
Vote Recount
80 BoIIots Involved
In Questioning Of
Queen Annes OfficiuIs
BY the Asseeiased Press

CENTREVILLE, Md, July a.
Snail-pace recounting of Demo-
cratic primary votes for COVER
nor was interrupted today while
the Queen Annes County Board
OF Election Supervisors ques-
toned seven election officials
about initials on some 80 ballots,
After two days of minute in
spection by his examiners,
George p. Mahoney picked up
10 votes from two ballot boxes,
narrowing H. c. Byrd's winning
margin in the county to 81 votes.
Sixteen ballot boxes remained to
be checked and at the rate ex-
aminers were moving, the re-
count in Queen Anres might run
two weeks or more.
In the two Queen, Annes ballot
boxes completely checked, DR..
Byrd has lost Is votes and Mr..
Mahoney s, mostly because of
improperly marked ballots.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Mahoney filed
Tor and was granted a recount
OF Calvert County's vote which
DR.. Byrd won by a margin Of go.
And he planned to ask today for
. recount In Talbot County
where DIR. Byrd won by so votes.
Asks Baltimore saecanvass.' B
The Baltimore County paving
contractor who captured 70 Of
the States all-important unit
votes to 80 for DR.. Byrd, also
asked for a "recanvass" of vot-
ing machines and tally sheets in
eight precincts Of Baltimore's
4th district, preparatory to ask
ing a full recount of the dis
trict's vote.
Byrd spokesman said they
would ask q recount in Balti-
more's 5th district If Mr.. Ma
honey acts in the 4th. Recounts
were to be asked today for DR..
Byrd in Garrett and Worcester
Counties where Mr.. Mahoney
won by margins of 1913 and IS.
votes, respectively.
Summoning of four election
judges, two clerks and a substi-
tute clerk or judge to appear
before the board here was the
latest development in the strug-
gle for Queen Annes' three unit
votes.
All From First District.
All seven officials are from the
LIST election district In SudIers-
vile. where DR.. BYRD lost 16
votes in yesterdays recount.
The disputed initials were.
those Of Mrs. Elsie M. Foxx. orie
Of the seven who handled the
Sudlersville x to q ballot box.
Mahoney examiners claimed
the initials were in the hand
writing Of some one other than
Mrs. Foxx.
LYMAN A. FRESHMAN, recount
counsel for Mr.. Mahoney, told
the board If the initials were
found to- be forged" the 80 or
SO ballots on which they APP
peared would be invalid.
A recount of the ballots in
Calvert County was set for next
Tuesday at 8 am.
Asks Kent Recount.
Meanwhile. Philip H. Dorsey,
who apparently lost the NOM
nation for attorney general to
c. Ferdinand Sybert on the
basis of "a unit votes for Sybert
to Sc for Dorsey, filed for re-
count in Kent County. Mr.. Sy-
bert won Kent's three unit votes
with a popular vote margin of
one vote, 1,02l to 1920. Should
a recount shift the margin in
Dorsey's favor. he would have SO
unit votes to Sybert's u.
Mr.. Dorsey also asked a re-
count in Baltimore's 4th dis
trict. which went to Mr.. Sybert
by 40 votes. and planned to call
for . new count In Hartford
County.
There are seven unit votes in
the city district. enough to de-
terrnire the attorney general
nomination. Harford's three
unit votes went to T. B. Harring-
ton. a third candidate. who OUT
distanced both Sybert and Dor
sey in Harford's popular voting.
Other Requests Planned.
Mr.. Sybert said he would ask
recounts today in Cecil, Carroll
and Dorchester, which went to
MIR. Dorsey by margins of 1862.
80 and 10 votes.
Charles e. Edmondson, Cam
bridge lawyer and chairman of
the Dorchester County Byrd-for-
Governor Committee, said a re-
count would be asked in Dor
chester but would not be pressed
If the unit vote was unchanged
elsewhere.