Digest of Election Cases: Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-seventh Congress, from 1880 to 1882, InclusiveU.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - 692 pages |
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Page 9
... persons from opening the polls and carrying on an election , whereby a large number of persons who desired to vote for contestant were prevented from ex- ercising the right ; that the canvassing officers improperly rejected the returns ...
... persons from opening the polls and carrying on an election , whereby a large number of persons who desired to vote for contestant were prevented from ex- ercising the right ; that the canvassing officers improperly rejected the returns ...
Page 15
... persons who took down , as far as practicable , the names of the persons who voted for him at the several pre- cincts , and prove the frauds by this character of evidence , and in other cases where no such account was kept to examine ...
... persons who took down , as far as practicable , the names of the persons who voted for him at the several pre- cincts , and prove the frauds by this character of evidence , and in other cases where no such account was kept to examine ...
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... persons of the negro race and 32,855 white persons , disclosing a very large increase of the negro race , so that on a calcu lation it may be assumed that there is , in fact , now a majority of 18,000 negro Republican voters over white ...
... persons of the negro race and 32,855 white persons , disclosing a very large increase of the negro race , so that on a calcu lation it may be assumed that there is , in fact , now a majority of 18,000 negro Republican voters over white ...
Page 34
... persons of the negro race ) , the joint majority over Shelley , Democrat , was 6,256 votes . The census returns of 1880 show that there are now in the counties composing the district 135,881 per- sons of the negro race , and 32,855 ...
... persons of the negro race ) , the joint majority over Shelley , Democrat , was 6,256 votes . The census returns of 1880 show that there are now in the counties composing the district 135,881 per- sons of the negro race , and 32,855 ...
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... persons inhabiting this district are largely in excess of the whites , there being 135,181 of the negro race and 32,855 of the white race , but as to how the voting population is divided polit- ically there is nothing in the evidence to ...
... persons inhabiting this district are largely in excess of the whites , there being 135,181 of the negro race and 32,855 of the white race , but as to how the voting population is divided polit- ically there is nothing in the evidence to ...
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Page 608 - States three years next preceding his arriving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may,- after he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen of the United States...
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Page 91 - Those who shall have been convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, larceny, bribery, illegal voting or other crime punishable by hard labor or imprisonment in the penitentiary, idiots and insane persons.
Page 120 - The ballot shall be a paper ticket, which shall contain, written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and shall designate the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen...
Page 655 - The person having the greatest number of votes shall be declared by the governor duly elected, and a certificate shall be given accordingly. Every such Delegate shall have a seat in the House of Representatives, with the right of debating, but not of voting.