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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...election district, by agreement of the parties to this contest, the entire election board was reassembled and recounted the ballots. This recount reduced Smith's plurality in the district 9 votes. Your committee makes no question as to the right and duty to accept the revised figures. 2. In another district two Republican election inspectors went into booths when voters were preparing their ballots without requiring the aflidavit provided by law that the voter needed assistance because of his ignorance of the English language or physical disability, the law of Michigan being as follows: When an elector shall make oath that he can not read English, or that because of physical disability he can not mark his ballot, or when such disability shall be made nianifest to said inspectors, his ballot shall be marked for him in the presence of the challenger of each political party having a challenger at such voting place by an inspector designed by the board for that purpose, which marking shall be done in one of the booths. (Sec. 3642, Michigan Compiled Laws of 1897, par. 169.), Section 3643, Michigan Compiled Laws of 1897, paragraph 170, provides: It shall be unlawful for the board, or any of them, or any person in the polling room or any compartment therewith connected to persuade or endeavor to persuade any person to vote for or against any particular candidate or party ticket. It was also charged that these inspectors, while in the booths, solicited voters to vote for contestee. The complaint to the effect that these voters who were instructed and assisted in preparing their ballots were not sworn may not be tenable. If the disability of the voter is manifest to the inspectors of the election, then the oath is not required to be...