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Show state canvassers beg count Official Returns of Election So Far Show No Material Change. Official canvass of the election returns from the various counties of Utah on the state ticket was commenced yesterday afternoon In the office of the secretary of state by the state canvassing board. It is figured that the work will not be completed for three or four days. The state hoard of examiners, under the law, ts the official canvassing board. The board of examiners met yesterday morning and passed upon some routine matters and then adjourned until 1:30 in the afternoon, when it again convened as a canvassing board. The official returns on the state ticket from the various counties were opened and turned over to a force of clerks from the offices of the secretary of state, state auditor and state treasurer, who will do the work of canvassing the returns and checking the figures. When the totals are secured they will be submitted to the board in formal session for the board's approval. The canvassers found but few errors in their work yesterday afternoon and none of the errors was sufficient to make any change in the result in any Instance. An error of two or three votes here and there was found, but in almost every instance in-stance an error in someone's favor or against him was offset by other errors which evened up the score. |