Madera Tribune, 5 November 1920
(This is how you do it! – JS)
Probe Is Opened on Ballot Fraud
NEW YORK, Nov 5.— All poll clerks, election inspectors and the board of canvassing inspectors in the thirteenth election district of the fourth assembly district, Manhattan, were subpoenaed yesterday by District Attorney Swann to appear at his office tomorrow in connection with the finding of 20 ballots yesterday at the opening of a sewer at Orchard and Stanton streets.
William Vogt and Joseph Hoffman made affidavits that they had found the ballots, which were marked for Mr. Swann, the district attorney, who is a candidate for supreme court Justice, and appears to have been defeated on the face of present returns.
The district attorney staled that the election officials in the district who were subpoenaed would be “interviewed by the grand Jury.” ”I am going to ask the extreme penalty,” he said, “for any violation of the election law, as I have always done.” Board of election records show that 585 voters registered in the election district while the return sheets from the district confirm there were 694 defective ballots, or more than one defective ballot for every registered voter.
Members of the district attorney’s staff expressed the opinion that frauds had been committed in several districts, citing as an example returns from Harlem districts, populated chiefly by negroes. In nearly every election district in the “black belt” every vote registered was cast for the Judiciary candidates, it is said, while other districts show that from 40 to 50 per cent of the registered voters did not vote for these candidates. In one Harlem district it was said there were 43 more votes for the Judiciary candidates than there were registered voters.
San Bernardino Sun, 9 November 1924
Postal Clerks Punished for Ballot Fraud
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 8. – Thirty-six postal employes in 16 cities have been found guilty of having mistreated mail recently by taking the ballots of a presidential straw votes poll from undeliverable envelopes and voting the ballots themselves. Postmaster General New in announcement today stated that the offenders had been disciplined by reducing their salary $100, said the offenses were pretty evenly distributed among the partisans of at least four candidates for the presidency. He did not make known the cities where employes were implicated. Each instance reported was thoroughly investigated by inspectors.
San Bernardino Sun, 1 November 1925
Senator Bursum in
Ballot Fraud Claim
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. Altera-
tion of ballots, intimidation of voters
and other irregularities in the last
senatorlal election in New Mexico,
were charged by Holm O. Bursum,
Republican, in a bill of complaint
made public today by the senate
sub-committee investigating his
contest for the senate seat now held
by Sam G. Bratton, Democrat.
Bursum requests a recount and
recanvass of the ballots on the
charge that Bratton and his agents,
election judges, clerks, challengers,
and party workers resorted in
“wrongful and unlawful practices.”
He also asserted that thirty insane
persons, twenty ex-convicts, not
restored to citizenship, fifty minors,
and more than 25 aliens voted for
Bratton and that the ballots were
counted.