Show ITO AID IN MAKING I RETURNS PUBLIC Bill Provides That Election I Judges Shall File Figures in Unsealed Duplicates I I Senator Albert E Miller chairman of or orthe the senate committee on elections has tinder un tin under under der consideration a bill to amend the lee elec election tion law or of Utah to provide that the judges Jud 1 of election of each polling place shall file me with th the county count clerk of their respective counties an lin cop copy of the total vote for each candidate In addition to the official returns transmitted to the county clerk cllrk in a sealed package the lat latter latter latter ter to be opened only by the canvassing boa boad id The duplicate copy COP of the returns Is to te on file at the county clerks office for public inspection in order that the public may learn the result of the election at the tIM earliest earlest moment without ut waiting days and sometimes weeks for the report of the canvassing boards Under the present system the result of a adose close dose election In la an outlying county Is of often often often ten not known for weeks If there were a close election in the entire state so that the vote sote of any anyone one of the isolated coun court counties ties lies might decide it the election of ot the stale officers would not riot be known until the tardy tard reports of the tho canvassing boards of these counties were tabulated by the state stale canvassing board By B the amendment proposed by Senator Miller the vote ote of or the entire count county could be obtained from front the county clerk within a day or two after the election and the vote ote of the state with approximate accuracy could fuld be made public almost Immediately im immediately Immediately mediately The aim is Js to pot got the election returns as 31 soon non as s possible The Th canvas canvassing canvassing sing Eln boards board duty would then be lie merely to verify this report There have been numerous Instances of this Two years rears ago a It was the accepted belief that a Republican member had been elected In Emery whereas the fact was that Carl E Larson Larsen a R Democrat was chosen over the Republican candidate |