Indiana squabbles over vote order
Indianapolis, Indiana (UP) –
The Indiana election board today instructed its 92 county boards to allow unlisted voters to cast ballots merely by showing their registration receipts and signing affidavits.
Attorney General James A. Emmert, Republican candidate for reelection, promptly charged the Democrats were attempting to “steal” the election and advised the county boards to disregard the state board orders.
He charged that the instructions are “a clear violation of law” and “open the door for the grossest kind of election frauds.”
Governor Henry F. Schricker, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator, and David M. Lewis Jr., Democratic member of the election board, said the affidavit system is authorized by a provision in the state board’s manual interpreting state election laws.
Intercession asked for voting time
Seattle, Washington (UP) –
Senator Mon C. Wallgren, Democratic candidate for Governor, today wired President Roosevelt asking immediate presidential intercession against the alleged refusal of the management of the “hush-hush” federal project at Hanford, Washington, to grant workers time off to vote.
Senator Wallgren’s wire stated:
I ask your immediate intercession to see that regulations promulgated by other federal departments be made applicable to the Hanford engineering project.
Security regulations in the past have prevented mention of the number of employees working at the huge project, or the nature of the work involved.