Show P IN FIXED POLL LISTS method of voting and doctor ehg votes SOME STARTLING EVIDENCE forty atour changes in ton ten precincts when democratic judges swear the lists were correct when they last laet saw them explanation of forgeries that led to the recount lacount regular regul and irregular methods the overwhelming proof produced in sari san pete pate county prohibition cases on friday and saturday that the con Con convention vendon registration books bocks and poll lists list 9 of that county have bea fraudulently altered has directed gereral ger kcf eral attention to the subject of election methods and has caused much in n auty among amon those not entirely familiar wih the details of the system under which w 11 h votes are cast counted and can varsted as to how discrepancies may b be created in the records of an election after the returns of such election have been made at the polls one of the three judges appointed by the utah commission to conduct the election in a given precinct makes a list of the names of those voting writing each mans name as ile he casts his ballot this list hit Is called calle d the li 11 list A second judge has charge of the registration book back and writes opposite the of each man as ho he N otes votes the word voted the records kept hept by these judges are arc intended to secure certainty as the one is a check upon tile the other r when the polls are closed the he registration book and the poll list are cum and it if they agree that Is 13 it if tile the number of names OTI on the poll list equals the number against bial which tile the word voted Is written on the registration list and the names iames are identical the ballots in the I 1 box are counted and if their number Is 1 1 I accord bilth the number of men shown to have voted no error has been committed and the count Is proceeded with the votes for the various candidates in cou counting ning are tallied opposite their names on two tally sheets and at the close of the count the totals are placed opposite the tallies the correctness of the count certified to by the judges anil and the tally sheets forwarded to the utah commission CAME TO THE COSI MISSION this was the method followed in ascertaining certa ining and certifying the result of the vote for delegates to the cons constitutional altu convention and as a consequence the tally sheets of the san eian pete precincts showing the votes received by the candidates for delegates from that county reached the commission in due time the e ecklor law provides provide i that if no discrepancy Is apparent in the returns affecting the clec election tion of a candidate the commission shall issue certificates to the persons shown by the returns to have been elected the contention of the commission in the present proceedings Is that the registration str atlon book the poll list and the tally sheets are all included within the term returns and that it i any discrepancy is found between any of them the commission has power to in open the hat hal lot boxes and recount the votes the petitioners petition ers on oil the other hand insist that the returns consist only of the tally sheets and that if they allee agree the commission must issue certificates upon them they further maintain that the only discrepancies that will authorize a recount are those that affect the election of a candidate that is that would change the result and defeat a candidate certified by the returns to have hava been elected and that even when such ruch discrepancies appear the commission la Is not tho the body authorized to make the recount LETCHERS LET CHEnS discrepancies 2 in line with the theory of the commission chairman letcher submitted on thursday a table of san pete dl discrepancies between the registry books and poll lists and between each and the tally sheets which he contended entitled the commission to recount the san pete constitutional convention ballots to understand these alleged discrepancies it must be borri borne 1 in mind that or on the poll lists used at the last election there were two we columns at the right of the name column in each of which it if a man voted both the general ballot and the constitutional convention ballot a cross was written opposite his name it he only voted the general ticket a cross was put tor for him in the general column and the constitutional column left blank opposite his name it if he did not vote the constitutional ticket tho tha word voted was not written opposite his ails name in the constitutional registry handwriting ON TIIE THE SHEETS the san pete judges of election after the closing ot of their polls compared the number or of crosses in the constitutional column of their poll lists with the number of names having the word voted against them lit in the registry book and found that they agreed now however ns as shown by mr letchers Let chera chers table published in the report of his testimony given lit in the tribune of friday the registry book of chester precinct tor for instance shows allows the word vord vota written opposite the name of one man who Is ignot not marked on the poll list as voting in the ephraim registry book voted appears opposite the names of seven neven men who are ara not marked on the poll list as voting in tha id loci chancy a 8 reversed lit in the contention column or of the poll list of that precinct crosses appear against the names of ci seven men to indicate that they voted the ile constitutional ticket but those aarnes aro are not on the constitutional registration 1 list abt at all and the judges swear I 1 that the men did not vote discrepancies of this character to the number of forty four in the records of ton ten precincts are arc presented in the letcher table the duplicate tally sleeta from each precinct still agree with each other othe STARTLING EVIDENCE the startling stai evidence submitted in court mainly by democratic appointees of the tha udall commission shows allow that the bisci cited by mr letch e cr were cio atel after tho the registry books and poll poil lists wore were tra transmitted bitted by the precinct judges to the commission and moreover that in making mailing the spurious spur loun crois grouses ses la in the convention column of 0 poll lists from various precincts for tho the purpose of showing a disagreement between tile the lists and the registry books the same saine ink was used proving that they were nil all made in lh the cr samo same place at tho the same saine time by the same parties part lei the forgery of the word votow voted in the regist ration books in alveral in stances si lias also beed testified to it may thus be soon seen how tho the dige rep anches were manufactured manufacture di and how important a p part art they wore were expected expect od to play in overturning tho result of an election and changing the political coln coin flexion of the constitutional convention |